Date of Submission
Spring 2018
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Art History
Project Advisor 1
Olga Touloumi
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This project explores Johan Huizinga’s theory of play with respect to art, space, and politics. Tracing the ways that his text, Homo Ludens, played out within the revolutionary avant-gardes of CoBrA and the Situationist International, as well as Constant’s utopian project of New Babylon, it investigates the subversive and reconstructive power of play as a counter-paradigm to the rationalist urbanism of postwar reconstruction.
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Open Access
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Recommended Citation
Kubecka, Kristen Lee, "Homo Ludens: Play, Subversion, and the Unfinished Work of Constant’s New Babylon" (2018). Senior Projects Spring 2018. 156.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2018/156
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