JR - Inside Out

Published by Rizzoli, 2017Hardcover, 256 pagesText in English with contributions by Chris Anderson, Pharrell Williams, and Marc AzoulayISBN: 9780847858644Last copy in stock is in good but not pristine condition. From the publisher:This book showcases the most important work by celebrated street artist and activist JR—the award-winning global street-art project he has been working on for the last six years, involving a quarter of a million people.Artist and activist JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. Known for plastering cities with huge black-and-white wheat-paste photographic portraits of the people who live there, JR won the TED Prize in 2011 with his “TED Wish”: to create a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work by making digitally uploaded images into posters to display in diverse communities. To accomplish this, JR has visited