NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE

The full range of Saint Phalle's oeuvre is paid glorious tribute in thisretrospective volume, which also features new images and an extendedbiography. Niki de Saint Phalle was an eclectic artist whose entire oeuvrestrives to communicate the message that art is not a linear course ofgrowth and perfecting, but a continuous quest for sensations. She was anartist who poured mythology, creative energy, feminist ideology, personalanxieties, political demands, a call for freedom and a breaking of the moldinto her work. This catalogue recreates the course of her development withattention to the chronology of the events from the Shooting Paintings, theexpression of the great unrest of those years, and the Nanas, in which theartist attempts to recreate the realm of childhood, to the Tarot Garden inGaravicchio, in which Saint Phalle wed her artistic language to thelanguage of architecture, and the Spiritual Path of her Californian Diary.