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Constant Joy.(Constant the Situationist)(Brief Article)

Artforum International,  May, 2001  by Withers, Rachel

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"A painting is not a composition of color and line but an animal, a night, a scream, a human being or all of these things together" proclaimed CoBrA cofounder Constant (b. 1920) in his 1948 Manifesto. Painting soon palled, and by 1956 Constant the Situationist was exclusively devising visionary architecture and urban plans. By the early ...

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