{"product_id":"what-is-now-known-was-once-only-imagined-an-autobiography-of-niki-de-saint-phalle-hardcover","title":"What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiki De Saint Phalle\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eNicole Rudick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle's own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance--a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation--her bringing to life--writes Rudick, is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle's life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in France, \u003cb\u003eNiki de Saint Phalle\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her \u003ci\u003eTirs\u003c\/i\u003e (\"shooting paintings\") and \u003ci\u003eNanas\u003c\/i\u003e and her celebrated large-scale projects--including the \u003ci\u003eStravinsky Fountain\u003c\/i\u003e at the Centre Pompidou, \u003ci\u003eGolem\u003c\/i\u003e in Jerusalem and the \u003ci\u003eTarot Garden\u003c\/i\u003e in Tuscany--Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Rudick\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Artforum\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e for nearly a decade. She is the editor, most recently, of a new edition of Gary Panter's legendary comic \u003ci\u003eJimbo: Adventures in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e (New York Review Comics, 2021).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10 x 7.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766991257888,"sku":"9781938221316","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/10b84381413d511981e2436f5ad09e48.webp?v=1780302488","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/what-is-now-known-was-once-only-imagined-an-autobiography-of-niki-de-saint-phalle-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}