Playgrounds
Reinventing the Square
ed. by MNCARS Editorial Activities Department ; texts by Lars Bang Larsen, Linda Nochlin, Aldo van Eyck, Constant [...et al)

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Author(s)

Lars Bang Larsen, Linda Nochlin, Aldo van Eyck, Constant, …[et al)

Editor(s)

MNCARS Editorial Activities Department

Publication

Madrid : MNCA Reina Sofia, 2016

Scope

320 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9788416120246

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Adopting as its premise the notion of carnival pageantry as a practice that alters the established order, Playgrounds. Reinventing the square explores the collective dimension of play and the need for a “ground” of its own in order to engage in the construction of a new public arena. Playgrounds takes a historical and artistic approach to the space reserved for play and its socializing, transgressive and political potential from the dawn of modernity to the present day. Playgrounds aims to explore the recreational, playful, festive side of life that puts the humdrum reality of the everyday on hold, subverting, reinventing and transcending it for one fleeting moment. Play / spelen / playgrounds

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Person as subject

Aldo van Eyck, Constant

Keywords

play

Location

Cabinet 17 - 3: Stad en Bewoners

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks