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Barnaby Conrad
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JACQUES VILLEGLÉ AND THE STREETS OF PARIS

Jacques Villeglé and the Streets of Paris is a large format art book about the  the last great French artist of the 20th century. Born in 1926 in Brittany, Jacques Villeglé moved to Paris in 1949 and began stealing torn, damaged posters off walls and billboards, then mounting them on canvas and proclaiming them Art. In 1959, André Malraux wrote to Picasso: "It is the art of the future showing its teeth." With over 380 photographs and images, this is the first biography in English of an iconic contemporary artist. 

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