{"id":15086,"date":"2022-02-22T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15086"},"modified":"2022-02-22T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:42:12","slug":"episode-474-nicole-rudick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-474-nicole-rudick","title":{"rendered":"Episode 474 – Nicole Rudick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 474:
\nNicole Rudick<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Who qualifies for biography was always the romantic notion of the Lone Genius, who was always white and male. Women were not taught to think of themselves in that individualistic way.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Author, critic and editor Nicole Rudick<\/a> joins the show to celebrate the publication of her amazing book, What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle<\/a> (Siglio Press). We get into Niki de Saint Phalle’s word-paintings & what they tell us about the arts of revelation and concealment, Nicole’s shifting concept of biography & the tyranny of the archives, the role of the audience\/reader in art, and why Nicole’s first big post-pandemic trip will be to Niki’s Tarot Garden<\/a> in Tuscany. We also talk about the role of women in biography and how women have to write themselves into history, Nicoles own history with art, how she found herself in NYC, the copy of Gary Panter’s Jimbo<\/a> that blew her mind, why she kept Ruth Scurr’s book on John Aubrey<\/a> beside her throughout the time she wrote the book, her post-lockdown aesthetic overload at the Art Institute of Chicago, and how Niki de Saint Phalle continues to reach us decades after her death. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“I knew enough of Niki’s work to understand that she put her life into it and that you could use it to tell a story.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n