Niki de Saint-Phalle. Revolt at Work.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 17519 |
| Format | 16 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 447 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Entering the art scene armed with a rifle designed to "make painting bleed," Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) created a protean body of work continuously informed by what she saw and experienced. This landmark biography—the first in French devoted to her—sheds light on the ongoing dialogue between the woman and the creator. It reveals the extraordinary journey of this self-taught artist, raised in America in a family of the old French aristocracy, and highlights the coherence of her artistic commitment, from her little-known beginnings as a painter, to the animals of Noah's Ark, including the Shooting Tables, the Altars, the Brides, the Nanas, the various monumental sculptures, created or not with her companion Jean Tinguely, not to mention the films and countless drawings, steeped in poetry and humor, that she produced. Crossing, for the first time and systematically, a quantity of sources (testimonies, correspondence, journals, preparatory work, sound and audiovisual archives, notes, manuscripts) collected in several countries (America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy), this work has benefited from the trust of the Niki de Saint Phalle Foundation based in California. It portrays an exceptional personality through the remarkably playful form she gave to her feminism, through the energy she deployed, notably to build her Tarot Garden in Tuscany, and the opulence of her work, conceived while leading private and professional lives in tandem. Through the portrait of the one who was the only woman in the group of New Realists (Klein, César, Arman, Villeglé, etc.), this biography draws the portrait of an era whose revolts and audacity still fascinate the younger generation.
Entering the art scene armed with a rifle designed to "make painting bleed," Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) created a protean body of work continuously informed by what she saw and experienced. This landmark biography—the first in French devoted to her—sheds light on the ongoing dialogue between the woman and the creator. It reveals the extraordinary journey of this self-taught artist, raised in America in a family of the old French aristocracy, and highlights the coherence of her artistic commitment, from her little-known beginnings as a painter, to the animals of Noah's Ark, including the Shooting Tables, the Altars, the Brides, the Nanas, the various monumental sculptures, created or not with her companion Jean Tinguely, not to mention the films and countless drawings, steeped in poetry and humor, that she produced. Crossing, for the first time and systematically, a quantity of sources (testimonies, correspondence, journals, preparatory work, sound and audiovisual archives, notes, manuscripts) collected in several countries (America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy), this work has benefited from the trust of the Niki de Saint Phalle Foundation based in California. It portrays an exceptional personality through the remarkably playful form she gave to her feminism, through the energy she deployed, notably to build her Tarot Garden in Tuscany, and the opulence of her work, conceived while leading private and professional lives in tandem. Through the portrait of the one who was the only woman in the group of New Realists (Klein, César, Arman, Villeglé, etc.), this biography draws the portrait of an era whose revolts and audacity still fascinate the younger generation.