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	Podcast:		PMA: Lectures
	Episode:		Painting and 'Pataphysics from Max Ernst to Thomas Chimes - March 9 2007
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		01:03:56
	Publish Date:		2007-03-14 10:00:00
	Description:		The Museum's Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Michael Taylor, discusses the influence of French Symbolist writer Alfred Jarry on a wide range of twentieth-century artists in the Museum's collections. The lecture examines how the iconoclastic writer's invented science of 'Pataphysics, which Jarry defined as "the science of imaginary solutions," has provided a farcical, tongue-in-cheek philosophy and inspiration for artists as varied as Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, and William Kentridge. One of the most radical inheritors of Jarry's ideas is the Philadelphia artist Thomas Chimes, who is the subject of Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics, a retrospective on view at the Museum February 27, 2007 - May 6, 2007.
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