True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu
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| ''[[True portrait of Monsieur Ubu]]'' (1896) is a woodcut frontispiece for ''[[Ubu Roi]]''. It represents [[Ubu]], a fictional character from Jarry's eponymous play.]] | ''[[True portrait of Monsieur Ubu]]'' (1896) is a woodcut frontispiece for ''[[Ubu Roi]]''. It represents [[Ubu]], a fictional character from Jarry's eponymous play.]] | ||
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| - | ''[[Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu]]''[http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/7/mode/1up] (1896, English: '''True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu''') is a [[woodcut]] by [[Alfred Jarry]], representing [[Ubu]] in ''[[Ubu Roi]]''. It is contrasted to "autre portrait de Monsieur Ubu"[http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/9/mode/1up] which has no [[resemblance]] to the first. | + | '''''Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu'''''[http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/7/mode/1up] (1896, English: '''True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu''') is a [[woodcut]] by [[Alfred Jarry]], representing [[Ubu]] in ''[[Ubu Roi]]''. It is contrasted to "autre portrait de Monsieur Ubu"[http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/9/mode/1up] which has no [[resemblance]] to the first. |
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| - | :[[Henri Béhar]] a montré qu' Ubu roi « se déroule un peu comme une spirale, celle qui orne la [[gidouille]] du Père Ubu dans le "Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu" .. | + | |
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| - | In Reimagining Life, Raihan Kadri presents a pioneering critical history of the epistemological and theoretical origins of the Surrealist movement and its subsequent legacy. The book contains extensive examination and new interpretations of the oft-neglected theoretical writing of Surrealists such as Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, André Breton, and Salvador Dalí, in order to demonstrate how Surrealism embodied a sensibility connected to a broader lineage of philosophical pessimism--involving such figures as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud--which Kadri argues represents a particular strain of modernism aimed at breaking human thought away from the constraint of various forms of idealism, expanding the possibilities for knowledge and human freedom. | + | |
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| - | Ubu's gidouille, which is generally considered untranslatable, refers to his enormous stomach with its spiral insignia. only is an emblem of a hyperinflation of human pride as Ubu Roi ... | + | |
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| - | distinguishing features are a dunce-cap and an enormous spiral (known as "La Gidouille") inscribed upon his stomach, suggestive of his predominantly intestinal functions (see fig. 15). f n Miro's Portrait of Madame B., the general silhouette of the figure on the left is too particularized to refer to anyone but Pere | + | |
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| + | The portrait shows a mysterious figure wearing an encasing [[robe]] which ends in a [[dunce-cap]], with a stomach (a [[beer belly]]) with a [[spiral]] [[insignia]], the [[gidouille]]. Under his right [[armpit]] is a [[stick]], one such as a teacher might carry. His barrel-like [[obese]] and rotund figure suggests that he has difficulty in moving. The robe and pointed cap are similar to the dress of a member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. | ||
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| *[[Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts]], exhibition the Spencer Museum of Art in 1998 | *[[Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts]], exhibition the Spencer Museum of Art in 1998 | ||
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Véritable portrait de Monsieur Ubu[1] (1896, English: True Portrait of Monsieur Ubu) is a woodcut by Alfred Jarry, representing Ubu in Ubu Roi. It is contrasted to "autre portrait de Monsieur Ubu"[2] which has no resemblance to the first.
The portrait shows a mysterious figure wearing an encasing robe which ends in a dunce-cap, with a stomach (a beer belly) with a spiral insignia, the gidouille. Under his right armpit is a stick, one such as a teacher might carry. His barrel-like obese and rotund figure suggests that he has difficulty in moving. The robe and pointed cap are similar to the dress of a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
See also
- Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts, exhibition the Spencer Museum of Art in 1998
- Fancy portrait
Online
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ubu-Jarry.png
- http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/almanac/ubu3.shtml
- http://archive.org/stream/uburoidrameencin00jarr#page/7/mode/1up, from the 1897 Mercure de France edition of Ubu Roi
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