Episode 29: Niki de Saint Phalle & the Tarot Garden
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Dossin, Catherine. “Niki de Saint-Phalle and the Masquerade of Hyperfemininity.” Woman’s Art journal 31 (2010): 29-38.
Aureli, Roberto. “Il Giardino dei Tarocchi. Un cantiere medievale ai tempi d’oggi.” Architecture Grosseto 15 (2021), 56-59.
Catalani, Barbara. “Il Giardino dei Tarocchi.” Architettura & arte, N.S. 2005/2006, 76-81.
Morelli, Emanuela. “Il giardino dei Tarocchi di Niki de Saint Phalle a Garavicchio.” Bollettino della Accademia degli Euteleti della Città di San Miniato 87 (2009): 395-410.
Brown, Brenda. “Monument to Metamorphosis: Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden reconsidered.” Landscape Architecture Magazine 94, no 8 (August 2004): 38-42.
Niki de Saint Phalle, 1949 [image credit: Getty Images]Niki de Saint Phalle in 1955 [image credit: Niki Charitable Art Foundation]Niki de Saint Phalle in Barcelona [image credit: Niki Charitable Art Foundation]Niki with her rifle [image credit: ERA Journal]Niki de Saint Phalle, Dawn (bleue), c. 1993, painted polyester on metal base [image credit: Artsy]Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, Hon: En Katedral, 1966, painted polyester [image credit: Hans Hammarskiöld via Performa]Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely [image credit: Getty Images via Elle]Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, the Stravinsky Fountain, 1983 [image credit: 123RF]The Tarot Garden [image credit: #womensart on Twitter]Niki de Saint Phalle in front of the Empress (in progress) [image credit: Niki Charitable Art Foundation via Interior Design Magazine]The Tarot Cards that Niki de Saint Phalle designed after her sculptures [image credit: The Tarot Garden Store]The High Priestess [image credit: L. Sheedy]The Empress [image credit: L. Sheedy]Strength [image credit: L. Sheedy]The Tarot Garden (L-R: the Magician, the High Priestess, the Hanged Man, the Hierophant, the Sun / Lower: the Wheel of Time) [image credit: L. Sheedy]Interior of the Empress [image credit: L. Sheedy]Jacuzzi!!! [image credit: L. Sheedy]Interior of the Empress [image credit: L. Sheedy]Niki de Saint Phalle’s bedroom in the Empress [image credit: L. Sheedy]Jean Tinguely’s cow skull chandelier in the Empress [image credit: L. Sheedy]The Emperor (L) and the Falling Tower (R) [image credit: L. Sheedy]details from the Emperor [image credit: L. Sheedy]Justice [image credit: L. Sheedy]Jean Tinguely, Injustice [image credit: L. Sheedy]Death [image credit: Corvi Lorenzo on Flickr]Me!
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Amazing episode. Have been to see the Stravinsky fountain. Now I get it!
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I’m so glad, Dot! Thank you for all your support. You are greatly appreciated!
-L
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