Several Illustrations of Joan Miro for the Plays of Alfred Jarry

摘要

The work of the Catalan painter Joan Miro is closely related to the book. He is rightfully considered to be the author of the largest number of publications with the original printed graphics. A substantial part of them consists of works on images for the writings by Alfred Jarry - one of the predecessors of surrealism in literature, created at different times. In particular, Papa Ubu - a grotesque character, the hero of the series of plays "King Ubu", "Ubu in Chains", "Ubu on the Hill", "Ubu Cuckolded" ("Ubu Roi", "Ubu Enchaine", "Ubu Sur La Butte", "Ubu Cocu"), etc. The image of Papa Ubu fascinated Miro in the 1920s, and the painter dedicated a large series of drawings to him in the period between 1953 and 1970. As a result, Eugene Teriade published four books, among them "King Ubu" (1966) with 13 color lithographs of the painter and "Ubu of The Balearic Islands" ("Ubu aux Baleares") with the texts written by Miro himself in the poetry, accompanied by 24 color and 1 black-and-white lithographs (on the box).