Author : Henry Darger
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847822843
The epic vision of outsider artist Henry Darger is captured for the first time in this comprehensive survey of his art and writings. A janitor by day, he spent his nights creating a vast, imaginative world describing a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil. 125 color illustrations.
Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590208557
"Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscript pages depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world-many showing hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified and strangled. While some art historians tend to dismiss Darger as an unhinged psychopath, in Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged, fearful, gay man, raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. This thoughtful, sympathetic biography tells the true story of a tragically misunderstood artist. Drawn from fascinating histories of the vice-ridden districts of 1900s Chicago, tens of thousands of pages of primary source material, and Elledge's own work in queer history, the book also features a full-color reproduction of a never-before-seen canvas from a private gallery in New York, as well as a previously undiscovered photograph of Darger with his life-partner Whillie. Engaging and arresting, Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy brings alive a complex, brave, and compelling man whose outsider art is both challenging and a triumph over trauma"--
Author : Brooke Davis Anderson
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791342108
An authoritative, balanced, and insightful look at American master Henry Darger (1892-1972). Presents his art and an exploration of his complex role in the art of our time.
Author : Henry Darger
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2001-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Henry Darger, who died in 1973, was a secretive Chicago janitor who has since been recognised as one of the supreme self-taught artists of the 20th century. This volume catalogues the American Folk Art Museum's recent acquisition of 37 Darger paintings.
Author : John M. MacGregor
Publisher : gce
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788887469196
The fifteen works by Darger, property of the Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne, are being exhibited for the first time in their totality at the Galleria Gottardo. In addition to the author's essays, the book also contains a selection of texts in Darger's original language. All of the works in the collection have been reproduced in large format, along with detail photographs, original drawings and pictures of the artist, and of the room exactly as it was found at the time of his death.
Author : Michael Moon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822351560
Moon turns his attention to the artist Henry Darger, an eccentric and self-taught artist whose work was only discovered after his death. Since then the work has become famous, but Darger himself has generally been seen as a withdrawn outsider artist whose work may have been the result of mental illness. Moon provides a contrasting view of a creative and gifted artist very responsive to the world around him.
Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1480459135
John Ashbery’s wild, deliriously inventive book-length poem, inspired by the adventures of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls Henry Darger, the prolific American outsider artist who died in 1973, leaving behind over twenty thousand pages of manuscripts and hundreds of artworks, is famous for the elaborate alternate universe he both constructed and inhabited, a “realm of the unreal” where a plucky band of young girls, the Vivians, helps lead an epic rebellion against dark forces of chaos. Darger’s work is now renowned for its brilliant appropriation of cultural ephemera, its dense and otherworldly prose, and its utterly unique high-low juxtaposition of popular culture and the divine—some of the very same traits that decades of critics and readers have responded to in John Ashbery’s many groundbreaking works of poetry. In Girls on the Run, Ashbery’s unmatched poetic inventiveness travels to new territory, inspired by the characters and cataclysms of Darger’s imagined universe. Girls on the Run is a disquieting, gorgeous, and often hilarious mash-up that finds two radical American artists engaged in an unlikely conversation, a dialogue of reinvention and strange beauty.
Author : Leisa Rundquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2023-01-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780367748135
This book is the first to examine Henry Darger's conceptual and visual representation of "girls" and girlhood. Specifically, Leisa Rundquist charts the artist's use of little girl imagery-his direct appropriations from mainstream sources as well as girls modified to meet his needs-in contexts that many scholars have read as puerile and psychologically disturbed. Consequently, this inquiry qualifies the intersexed aspects of Darger's protagonists as well as addresses their inherent cute and little associations that signal multivocal meanings often in conflict with each other. Rundquist engages Darger's art through thematic analyses of the artist's writings, mature works, collages, and ephemeral materials. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art and gender studies, sociology, and contemporary art.
Author : Anthony Petullo
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0252072774
A collection of self-taught and outsider art with a European representation of artists.
Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0143134590
A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.
