Niki de Saint Phalle

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The full range of Saint Phalles oeuvre is paid glorious tribute in this retrospective volume, which also features new images and an extended biography. Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) is a respected figure who has recently come to the attention of the broader public. This beautiful and celebratory book on her works, it is made distinctly personal by the artist's own handwritten comments, private photographs and whimsical sketches. Niki de Saint Phalle was an eclectic artist of unbridled creativity whose entire oeuvre strives to communicate the message that art is not a linear and straightforward course of growth and perfecting, but a continuous, unavoidable quest for sensations, experienced and to be communicated to viewers, seen as an arduous but fascinating adventure.