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Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts

Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts

Stephen Goddard, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

French playwright Alfred Jarry is best known for his scandalous dramatic productions (such as Ubu Roi) that shocked the Parisian public in the 1890s. Ubu's Almanac gives voice to Jarry's grotesque personification of Greed, King Ubu, and to some of the artist's less well known concerns as expressed in the graphic arts. The exhibition will emphasize Jarry's fascination with popular culture and his theoretical concerns, such as his remarkably prophetic theory of "pataphysics" (Jarry's science o the laws that govern exceptions).

Exhibition images

Works of art

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L’Ymagier VI, January 1896

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Saint Nicolas

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907); Sebastien Munster, Perhinderion I

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L'Ymagier III, April 1895

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L'Ymagier II, January 1895

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L'Ymagier I, October 1894

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Overture d'Ubu Roi, from Repertoire des pantins

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Programme pour le Théâtre des Pantins

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), César-Antechrist

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), Marche des Polonais

Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), La Chanson du Decervelage

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), L'Annonciation

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), La Guerre (War)

Emile Bernard (1868–1941), La vierge aux saintes

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L'Ymagier VI, Specimen Issue, December 1895

Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), Almanach du Père Ubu illustré (Janvier-Fevrier-Mars)

Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915); Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), L'Ymagier IV, July 1895

Events

April 14, 1998

Talk

Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts

3:00–4:00PM

309 Auditorium

April 16, 1998

Talk

Alfred Jarry: Author, Printmaker, and Pataphysician

12:15–1:15PM

April 21, 1998

Talk

Tour in French

2:30–3:30PM

April 23, 1998

Talk

Weird Science: Pataphysics and Art Criticism in 1894

7:00–8:00PM

309 Auditorium

April 26, 1998

Performance

Reading of Alfred Jarry's "Ubu"

2:00–3:00PM

309 Auditorium

April 30, 1998

Screening

Ubu and the Great Gidouille

7:00–9:00PM

309 Auditorium