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New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City

New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City

New Babylonians: Contemporary Visions of a Situationist City

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Borden, Iain and Sandy McCreery

eds. Pap. New York, 2001

Book ID: 48762

Renowned for its decadence and hanging gardens, ancient Babylon was a cosmopolitan cultural centre which established the civic principles of freedom and law. In 1959, a member of the Situationist International, the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, entitled his utopian vision of a unitary urbanism "New Babylon". With the aid of coloured perspectives, plans and models, as well as a potent narrative, Constant delivered a shocking image of a metropolitan future.

112 pp., illus.