Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s by Dawsey, Jill

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

A timely reassessment of the artist's early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art...
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Author: Jill Dawsey
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Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s by Dawsey, Jill

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

$169.88

Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

$169.88
Author: Jill Dawsey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A timely reassessment of the artist's early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art historical significance

This volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the Tirs ("shooting paintings") and Nanas ("dames"), in the experimental 1960s practice of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002). Alongside a poetic response to the work, four essays treat Saint Phalle's oeuvre as works of radical performance and feminist art, as well as highlighting her transatlantic projects and collaborations. A chronology with photo-documentation and known participants details for the first time all Tirs shooting events in Europe and the United States, and another timeline recaps Saint Phalle's life in the 1960s.

Tirs were made by firing a .22 caliber rifle at the surfaces of paintings. The bullets pierced bags of pigment, aerosol paint cans, or even food embedded in dense assemblages covered in painted plaster. Saint Phalle's increasingly liberated female figures with outstretched arms, curvaceous forms, and powerful poses developed into her well-known Nanas, an evolution contemporaneous with the rise of a Euro-American feminist movement.

Distributed for the Menil Collection and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego


Exhibition Schedule:

Menil Collection, Houston
(September 10, 2021-January 23, 2022)

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
(April 9-July 17, 2022)

Author: Jill Dawsey, Michelle White
Publisher: Menil Foundation
Published: 09/21/2021
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 10.33h x 7.56w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780300260106

About the Author
Jill Dawsey is curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Michelle White is senior curator at the Menil Collection, Houston.

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