Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s

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By Jill Dawsey and Michelle White

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Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s offers a focused examination of the artist's groundbreaking Tirs (shooting paintings) and Nanas (dames) series, created during the experimental 1960s. The book explores her radical performances and feminist sculptures, highlighting their significance within art history and feminist movements. Detailed timelines document the shooting events and her life throughout the decade, providing rich context on her transatlantic collaborations.
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This volume is ideal for readers interested in feminist art, performance art, and 20th-century avant-garde movements, as well as those fascinated by Niki de Saint Phalle’s influential role in both European and American art scenes.

A timely reassessment of the artist’s early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art historical significance

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300260106

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 135 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Amelia Jones
Contributions by Alena J. Williams
Contributions by Ariana Reines
Contributions by Kyla McDonald
Contributions by Molly Everett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 184.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Jill Dawsey Michelle White Non-Fiction

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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