From Saint Phalle to eating stars
1. The eye has it.... On 5 May 2026 American writer and feminist commentator Sarah Wilson issued her latest book - I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World (Wilson 2026). The cover was graphically interesting, to say the least. Whilst browsing through the bookshop of the Australian National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on 22 June of that year, the present writer came across of book collection of feminist posters, with the back page cover as follows: The poster on the top right, simply titled hon [she], caught the eye of the writer, and immediately reminded one of the Sarah Wilson cover. This blog talks about that artwork and the artist responsible. ---------------- 2. Nikki de Saint Phalle The art work of the aforementioned Sarah Wilson book reminded the present writer of the following offset lithograph poster for a 1966 exhibition by "outsider" French-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker and author Nikki de Saint Phalle (19...