Urbi & Orbi: Crossing Time and Space

San Francisco: Martin Muller Books, an imprint of Modernism, Inc., 2012. First printing, full number line. 161 pages: illustrations; 24 cm New; very fine in very fine jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780983067313, 0983067317

"Urbi & Orbi: Crossing Time and Space is a collection of writings by French artist Jacques Villeglé, world-renowned for his appropriations of torn posters. Villeglé has been directly involved with many of the most important developments in twentieth-century art of the past fifty years. Throughout this period, Villeglé 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 Villeglé 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. Lacéré anonyme, or Torn anon. Spontaneous manifestation. Collective realities. The pataphysicist, the determinist, and the indifferent. from collage to décollage. 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.