Constant and his family. F.l.t.r. Victor, Constant, Olga, Eva, Martha, and Constant's third wife, Nel Kerkhoven. Their dog, German Shepherd, Herta, on the right, 1964.
Constant and his wife, Nel Kerkhoven, on New Year's in Seville, ca 1964.
A cut out of Constant from this photo is used with his text in Provo 4 in 1965.
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Constant lecturing at his exhibition at Vernissage Krefeld, 1964
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Text in catalogue of exhibition New Babylon. Imaginäre Stadtlandschaften, Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, 1964.
New Babylon: Imaginäre Stadtlandschaften in cat. of the exhibition Constant 1945-1983, Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1986, p. 41-44.
New-Babylon: Skizze zu ein Kultur is an original German manuscript in collaboration with Caspari translated and adjusted by Constant. A summary of the Dutch text was published in 1974 in the exhibition catalogue at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Neither the original Dutch text of 125 pages nor the German manuscript of 165 pages was ever published as a whole until 2021.
Nya Babylon in Paletten, vol. 25, nº 2, Copenhagen, 1964, p. 56-61.
Ny Babylon in Arkitekten. Meddelelser fra Danske Arkitekters Landsforbund, vol. 66, nº 13, June 1964, p. 280-284.
Opkomst en ondergang van de avant-garde (Rise and fall of the avant-garde) in Randstad, nº 8, 1964, p. 6-35. Shorter version published in Nieuw Beelden Bulletin, November 1965.
English translation: The Revolution of Creative Man in New Babylon Informatief nr. 4, 1966
A lecture by Constant with an introduction by Victor Pasmore at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 17/18 Dover Street, W.1., London, November 7, 1963 8.15 PM.
The original announcement is at the Tate Archive and Public Records Catalogue, no. TGA 8228/11.