Jacques Villeglé and the Streets of Paris (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781950301379)

In 1949 an aristocratic bohemian named Jacques Mahé de La Villeglé was walking down the Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris when a billboard of shredded posters caught his eye. The colors and jagged shapes looked like an abstract painting. So he ripped them down, mounted them on canvas, and pronounced it Art. "You see the street was really my atélier", says Villeglé, now 95- years-old and still making art in Paris. His work hangs in every major contemporary art museum in the world and Paris's Pompidou Center gave him a huge retrospective in 2008. Today he's considered the precursor to street artists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Banksy.

Author: Barnaby Conrad
ISBN-10: 1950301370
ISBN-13: 9781950301379
Publisher: Inkshares
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.35lbs
Size: 11.73h x 10.16w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2022