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Bright, fresh, satirical and full of surprises, She is the result of a month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything...
...daughter Helena joined him to work at a cable plant. Vlachos, 42, however, was a moody, tempestuous man, and he eventually lost his job through an argument with a foreman. So when his son Ioannis, 22, who worked near by, decided to send for his 18-year-old wife Niki, the family delegated the idle Vlachos to go home and bring her back from Valtero...
...Take Niki de Saint-Phalle, 34, for instance. She was born Agnes, looked demure on a LIFE cover in 1949 while a Park Avenue postdeb, and then, calling herself Niki, turned into one of the nutty art world's most charming cashews. Refining action painting, which was supposed to spread the oils around, she hit the target in 1960 by attaching bags of paint to canvases, then blasting them with her .22-cal. rifle. Now that the quick-draw days are over, she has popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk...
...showing something called Gorgo in New York-a papier-mache dinosaur walking over a city of toy cars and trains, a papier-mache serpent crushing a rocking horse, plus gears of a clock, a half-full milk carton, a pot of roses. It was made by Sculptress Niki de Saint-Phalle, who finished the job by spraying it white and splattering it with black by means of shooting attached bags of paint full of bullet holes...
Among Hungarian authors who helped stir the people to revolt in 1956, none was more famous than Novelist Tibor Dery. His Niki: The Story of a Dog, a powerful satire on Stalinism in Hungary, was published on the eve of the uprising and immediately became a bestseller. For his role in the revolution, the Janos Kadar puppet regime sentenced Dery to nine years in prison...