{"product_id":"niki-de-saint-phalle-in-the-1960s-by-jill-dawsey-9780300260106","title":"Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA timely reassessment of the artist’s early performances and feminist sculptures, affirming their radical engagements and art historical significance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the \u003ci\u003eTirs\u003c\/i\u003e (“shooting paintings”) and \u003ci\u003eNanas\u003c\/i\u003e (“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA chronology with photo-documentation and known participants details for the first time all \u003ci\u003eTirs\u003c\/i\u003e shooting events in Europe and the United States, and another timeline recaps Saint Phalle’s life in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTirs\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNanas\u003c\/i\u003e, an evolution contemporaneous with the rise of a Euro-American feminist movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461199970540,"sku":"9780300260106","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300260106-niki-de-saint-phalle-in-the-1960s.jpg?v=1774961935","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/niki-de-saint-phalle-in-the-1960s-by-jill-dawsey-9780300260106","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}