Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being, January 24 through May 10, 2020 “The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first major U.S. museum exhibition exploring the iconoclastic works and personality of the French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being considers the… Read More
“The Symbolist movement coalesced during the second half of the nineteenth century amidst the era’s artistic emphasis on representing objective reality. Writers in France and Belgium sought a new form of art—one that invoked the visible world purely as symbols that correlate to the ineffable… Read More
