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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrestel Gmbh & Co KG.
ISBN-103791339842
ISBN-139783791339849
eBay Product ID (ePID)64439696
Product Key Features
Book TitleNiki De Saint Phalle : My Art, My Dreams
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Artists / General, History / General
Publication Year2008
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorCarla Schulz-Hoffmann
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width11 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-942848
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal730.92
SynopsisA beautiful and celebratory book on the works of Niki de Saint Phalle, this expanded and updated edition is made distinctly personal by the artist's own handwritten comments and whimsical sketches. When Niki de Saint Phalle died, the world lost not only an artist of enormous passion, but also a remarkably creative woman whose work and life were inextricably linked. Throughout her forty-year career Saint Phalle explored female roles in society and myth, basing many of her disquieting and joyfuldepictions on personal experience. The full range of Saint Phalle's oeuvre is paid glorious tribute in this retrospective volume, which also features new images and an extended biography. Chronologically arranged, this updated book takes readers from the visceral and controversial "shooting paintings" and her playfully voluptuous ì"nanas" to the impressive installations and wonderfully elaborate sculpture gardens such as the Tarot Garden in Tuscany, the Sun God in San Diego and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris. In addition to nearly a hundred color and black and white photographs of Saint Phalle's work, the artist's own comments and sketches are interspersed throughout the book, providing an integral framework for understanding and appreciating her unusual talent. AUTHOR Carla Sculz-Hoffmann is Director of the Collection of TWentieth-Century art in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has edited several catalogues on expressionist and modern art. ILLUSTRATIONS 200