Niki de Saint Phalle

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022. Paperback. Good (EX-LIBRARY, as indicated by a stamp on the title page; wraps are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly scuffed/smudged/worn; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Black wraps with b&w photo illustration and colorful lettering; 207 pp.; richly illustrated, chiefly in color. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zurich, September 2nd, 2022 through January 8, 2023. Niki de Saint Phalle's sensual Nanas--buxom, colorful female figures--laid the foundation for her international success beyond the art world. But the self-taught artist's creative spectrum is much broader, and her unconventional oeuvre, ranging from painting and drawing to assemblages, performances, theater, film, and architecture, is more subversive and critical of society than is widely assumed. Based on her efforts to process her own feelings, she addressed social and political issues, critically questioning institutions and role models in ways that are as relevant today as they have ever been. This exhibition and the publication shed new light on the artist's exceptional personality and uncover the wide-ranging oeuvre of the popular outsider. -- WorldCat.