Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s / Jill Dawsey, Michelle White.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dawsey, Jill (Author)
White, Michelle, 1979- (Author)
Other Authors: Saint-Phalle, Niki de, 1930-2002
Language:English
Published: Houston : La Jolla : The Menil Collection ; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, [2021]
Subjects:
Saint-Phalle, Niki de, > 1930-2002.
Sculptors > France.
Sculptors.
France.
Physical Description:242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chronology of Tirs Séances: Niki de Saint Phalle's shooting sessions, 1961-1972 / Molly Everett
  • The outside world: Niki de Saint Phalle's Tirs and American art, 1961-1963 / Michelle White
  • The first free women: Niki de Saint Phalle's Nanas / Jill Dawsey
  • Works of art
  • Niki de Saint Phalle and the ethics of ambiguity / Alena J. Williams
  • Inside the empress / Ariana Reines
  • Wild maid, wild soul, a wild, wild weed: Niki de Saint Phalle's fierce femininities in the 1960s / Amelia Jones.