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FUTURE
Richard
Hawkins "I not only think Alfred Jarry was really cute, I think he's an underrated, hardly acknowledged transition from French Decadence/Symbolism to Dada/Surrealism. He was also a pretty outrageous character: lighting cigarettes with a pistol, living in an apartment that only he -- at 5'2" -- could walk upright in. At the age of 23, he was attending the Tuesday evenings at Mallarme's Paris apartment with the formative poets of the period. He was out as a homosexual way before Cocteau or Gide. Partially because of the latter, a couple of works remain unpublished and a biography in English is yet to be written." -- Richard Hawkins Richard Hawkin's interest in Alfred Jarry will result in an illustrated monoprint, the precise content of which is still under consideration, but which is expected to consist of any of the following: translations of the more interesting, unknown (in English) biographical fragments; a collection of mentions of Jarry in other people's autobiographies ; an annotated bibiliography of the work of Jarry. Another project of Contemporary Editions Los Angeles, the publishing venture of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Richard Hawkin's Alfred Jarry Project is partially funded by Art for Art's Sake, New York.
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