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For the avant-garde playwright, puppeteer, critic, novelist, artist, and cyclist Alfred Jarry, life was a series of artful acts. Perhaps best known in his day for the controversial play<\/em> Ubu Roi, Jarry is often credited with helping spark the fires of surrealism, Dada, and futurism. <\/em>\u201cAlfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being<\/a>\u201d (on view at the Morgan Library and Museum through May 10) is the first major U.S. museum exhibition of his work; it demonstrates the breadth of his artistic practice. A selection of images from the show\u2014including photographs of Jarry\u2019s experiments with typography and woodblocks\u2014appears below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alfred Jarry, Les minutes de sable m\u00e9morial <\/em>(Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, \u201cUbu roi,\u201d in Livre d\u2019Art<\/em> no. 2 (April 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, autographed manuscript of three poems \u201cafter and for\u201d Paul Gauguin, ca. 1893\u20131894. The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased for the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, C\u00e9sar-antechrist<\/em> (Paris: Mercure de France, 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, Ubu roi<\/em> (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, Les minutes de sable m\u00e9morial<\/em> (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, C\u00e9sar-antechrist<\/em> (Paris: Mercure de France, 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry (at right) fencing with F\u00e9lix Blaviel in Laval, 1906. The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alfred Jarry, Les minutes de sable m\u00e9morial<\/em> (Paris: Mercure de France, 1894). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. Photo: Janny Chiu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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All images from the Morgan Library and Museum\u2019s \u201cAlfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being<\/a>,\u201d on view through May 10, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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