The Activist Drawing : Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond
by Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley
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About This Item
The Drawing Center, MIT Press, 2001. First edition. Gift quality. Fine and bright color pictorial hardcover with crisp bright text throughout. From an artist's scholar's private library with her small attractive book stamp to the opening flyleaf which actually enhances the book going nicely nicely with the design and subject matter throughout Beautifully illustrated throughout with a deeply realized text. Essays by Benjamin Buchloh, Mark Wigley, Rosallyn Deutsche, Anthony Fidler, Elizabeth Diller, Bernard Tschumi, Martha Rosler, Thomas McDonough and Catherine de Zegher. All beginning with the Dutch artist C. Nieuwehuys who developed his visionary architectural complex between 1956 anbd 1974. Emerging from discussions, a remarkable activist group. Concerned with the future of art in a technocratic world. These essays in the book explore many subjects including a wide range. They used this to reconsider the role of drawing in an electronic age. Gift quality all around
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- Longhouse, Publishers and Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- The Activist Drawing : Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond
- Author
- Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Mark Wigley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Drawing Center, MIT Press, 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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