Villegl Jacques (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. First printing, full number line. 161 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. "Urbi & Orbi: Crossing Time and Space is a collection of writings by French artist Jacques Villegl?, world-renowned for his appropriations of torn posters. Villegl? has been directly involved with many of the most important developments in twentieth-century art of the past fifty years. Throughout this period, Villegl? writings remained scattered in various magazines and museum publications. The present volume brings together a selection of these texts--appearing here for the first time in English--in which Villegl? offers witty, irreverent, and trenchant observations about art and culture as well as his own artistic practice"--Dust jacket flapContents: Translator's note. Genesis. Insolent choices. Lac?r? anonyme, or Torn anon. Spontaneous manifestation. Collective realities. The pataphysicist, the determinist, and the indifferent. from collage to d?collage. Manipulating innocence. On illegibility. When protexts hit the metro. Paraliterary genealogy. On the right to post contradistinctions. Tension between nurture and nature. Notes: Exhibition history, p. 119. New; very fine in very fine jacket.…