Bibliography

Lecture by Tom McDonough on Constant's Design for a Gypsy camp in connection to Arno Mik's larger model of the Design for the Roma paviljon, Call the Witness during the Biennale in Venice, 2011.

Catalog for the exhibition Klee & Cobra at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Danmark from 30 Sep 2011 to 8 Jan 2012. On the cover: Blau mantel, Paul Klee, 1940.

The realization that children have their own type of childish creativity and the potential to express themselves through art was a crucial driving force in Paul Klee’s own creative work: from pieces displaying the spontaneous texture of finger painting to his Dada-esque puppets made of found materials. Animated by Klee, after World War II painters from the group of artists known as CoBrA in turn lighted on the child’s visual world as a source of inspiration for their new, revolutionary artistic departure.

Die Entdeckung des bildnerischen Ausdruckspotentials von Kindern und der eigenen kindlichen Kreativität gab Paul Klee entscheidende Impulse für sein künstlerisches Schaffen – von Arbeiten mit der spontanen Haptik von Fingermalereien bis zu seinen dadaesken Handpuppen aus vorgefundenen Materialien. Inspiriert von Klee, entdeckten die Maler der Künstlergruppe CoBrA nach den Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihrerseits die Bildwelt des Kindes als Inspirationsquelle für ihren revolutionären künstlerischen Aufbruch.

Catalogue for the exhibition Parijs — Stad van de moderne kunst 1900-1960 at Kunstmuseum Den Haag from 15 October 2011 till 29 January 2012. 

Blog on the influence of fun with references to Constant and Johan Huizinga's concept of the Homo Ludens.

Video presentation on New Babylon.

Catalog with the exhibition at AAMU [Museum voor hedendaagse Aboriginal Kunst, Utrecht], 11 November 2010 till 8 May 2011.

Video presentation on New Babylon

Blog on Constant's New Babylon and Archigram.

Blog by a Spanish blogger about Constant's New Babylon and the homo ludens.

Review of the exhibition Met eigen ogen – zelfportretten in de Nederlandse moderne kunst at the Noord-Brabants Museum. Constant's self portrait is mentioned in the fifth paragraph.

A brief animated history of the avant-garde artist's group CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris. They'd sign their manifesto 'La Cause Était Entendue. They split up in 1951.

Article by Ethel Baraona Pohl on the website www.archdaily.cl, March 2009.

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book Constant, de late periode.  

The book 'Architectural Positions On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere' presents the views of 36 international architects who, over the past fifty years, have made their voices heard in the debate on the public sphere. They include Luis Barragán, Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Daniel Libeskind, Aldo Rossi, Bernard Tschumi and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The essays in this book give an overview of the past fifty years of architectural discourse on this theme.

A selection of historical documentations about Cobra, 5 dvd's with 12 hours and 15 minutes of material. Including the films Cobra, een opstand tegen de orde, De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel en Ik ben er alleen als ik achter mijn doek sta by Jan Vrijman.DVD 2: Karel Appel - Constant Nieuwenhuys

Published to accompany the exhibition Intensely Dutch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 5 June-23 August 2009

3 text by Constant translated from the French translations in Jean Clarence Lambert's book New Babylon: Art et Utopie edited by Gustavo Gili. - Nueva Babilonia: una ciudad nómada (1974), p.6-49 - La intensificación del espacio (1974) [It is an extract from the final section of “New Babylon: A Nomadic Town”], p. 49-50 - Descripción de la zona amarilla (1960), p. 51-54 - Auto-diálogo a propósito de Nueva Babilonia (1971), p. 55-64

Catalogue for the exhibition Met eigen ogen: Zelfportretten in de Nederlandse moderne kunst, held from 21 May till 30 August 2009 at the Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch, NL).

A speech by Constant's friend Hein van Haren on the occassion of the opening of the exhibition Constant in het atelier at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam from December 13, 2008 till March 22, 2009 and the presentation of the book Constant, de late periode by Trudy van der Horst.

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book Constant, de late periode.

Article on the oeuvre exhibition Constant in het atelier in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

A review of the book Constant, de late periode, 2008 on the website of De Eerste Bergense Boekhandel.