{"title":"Books by Nicole Rudick","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781681378350","title":"Spiral and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTHE GUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA delicate, dreamlike, and lushly detailed comics collection by a contemporary artist whose work explores the enmeshment of the human and non-human worlds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, Aidan Koch’s comics have been pushing the boundaries of the medium, reimagining what a comic can look like and how it can tell a story. Koch has been living and working in the desert of California, turning her focus toward the ways humans and the natural world converge. \u003ci\u003eSpiral and Other Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph of that continuing process. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing watercolors, pencils, crayons, charcoals, and collage, Koch builds worlds of dense detail and vast open spaces, urgent scrawled text and long silences, telling a series of stories about people and the places they inhabit. Characters yearn for each other, even as they’re pulled toward different lives. Rivers dance together, then diverge as they make their way to the sea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an accompanying essay by the author and critic Nicole Rudick, who explores Koch’s craft and her move into environmentally focused comics,\u003ci\u003e Spiral and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a showcase of Koch’s mastery of comics as a medium that can contain astonishing forms and offer new kinds of storytelling for our uncertain times.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44203464949938,"sku":"9781681378350","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681378350_ec489ad3-ae17-4da0-83ea-865ca40fefdb.jpg?v=1786024597"},{"product_id":"9781681375267","title":"Jimbo","description":"\u003cb\u003eA futuristic punk ventures through a madcap, dystopian fantasia in this astounding work of comics literature by a celebrated artist and illustrator.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Panter is one of America’s great creative forces: the illustrator for the trailblazing punk magazine \u003ci\u003eSlash\u003c\/i\u003e, set designer for the legendary TV show \u003ci\u003ePee-wee’s Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e, and one of the wildest, most innovative comics artists of all time. \u003ci\u003eJimbo: Adventures in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e is a leap into the uproarious life of Panter’s ever-cheerful punk everyman, Jimbo, and a perfect introduction to Panter’s ever-shifting style. Amid a jumbled cityscape of rundown New York City streets and futuristic Los Angeles freeways, Jimbo crowd-surfs at a riot, makes amends with Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, and rescues his pal Smoggo’s sister from giant cockroaches, all while the world teeters between extravagance and apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVeering from the crude to the elegant, the wise to the funny, \u003ci\u003eJimbo: Adventures in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e proves Panter is a master of cartooning, and still way ahead of the rest of us.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303292481909,"sku":"9781681375267","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681375267_11240e34-0fc0-4c8d-8cc7-dc81763e4cb3.jpg?v=1786024547"},{"product_id":"9781938221316","title":"What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle's own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and complexity of female desire, imagination and creativity, Niki de Saint Phalle viewed making art as a ritual, a performance—a process connecting life to art. This unconventional, illuminated biography, told in the first person in Saint Phalle's voice and her own hand, dilates large and small moments in Saint Phalle's life which she sometimes reveals with great candor, at other times carefully unwinding her secrets. Nicole Rudick, in a kind of collaboration with the artist, has assembled a gorgeous and detailed mosaic of Saint Phalle's visual and textual works from a trove of paintings, drawings, sketches and writings, many previously unpublished or long unavailable, that trace her mistakes and successes, her passions and her radical sense of joy. Saint Phalle's invocation—her \"bringing to life\"—writes Rudick, \"is an apt summation of the overlap of Saint Phalle’s life and art: both a bringing into existence and a bringing to bear. These are visions from the frontiers of consciousness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in France, \u003cb\u003eNiki de Saint Phalle\u003c\/b\u003e (1930–2002) was raised in New York and began making art at age 23, pursuing a revelatory vision informed both by the monumental works of Antonin Gaudí and the Facteur Cheval, and by aspects of her own life. In addition to her \u003ci\u003eTirs\u003c\/i\u003e (“shooting paintings”) and \u003ci\u003eNanas\u003c\/i\u003e and her celebrated large-scale projects—including the \u003ci\u003eStravinsky Fountain\u003c\/i\u003e at the Centre Pompidou, \u003ci\u003eGolem\u003c\/i\u003e in Jerusalem and the \u003ci\u003eTarot Garden\u003c\/i\u003e in Tuscany—Saint Phalle produced writing and works on paper that delve into her own biography: childhood and her break with her family, marriage to Harry Mathews, motherhood, a long collaborative relationship with Jean Tinguely, numerous health crises and her late, productive years in Southern California. Saint Phalle has most recently been the subject of retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in 2015, and at MoMA P.S.1, in 2021.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole Rudick\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic and an editor. Her writing on art, literature and comics has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Artforum\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She was managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e for nearly a decade. 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