Dargers Resources

Author : Michael Moon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351560
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darger's Resources written by Michael Moon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Since then the work has become famous, but Darger himself has generally been seen as a withdrawn outsider artist whose work may have been the result of mental illness.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 : Joe Darger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062088815
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Times Three LP written by Joe Darger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, polygamous families have been forced to hide their lifestyle. But this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family is a riveting inside look at a world we can hardly imagine, revealing the extraordinary workings of one family’s day-to-day life. In this intimate story, the Dargers explain why they chose this path despite the pressures of keeping their relationships secret and the jealousy and personal challenges that naturally ensue; why they believe polygamy should be an accepted lifestyle; and, ultimately, why they hope that by revealing their way of life in public, laws that criminalize polygamy might change. Despite the risk of legal action, the Dargers know that it’s time to counteract Hollywood’s sensational interpretation and the general public’s misunderstanding of polygamy with the truth.

Author : Allen C. Shelton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606378X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the North Sea Touches Alabama written by Allen C. Shelton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a warm summer’s night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered with images, while a pair of large scissors, glue, electrical tape, and some dentures shared space with a pile of old medical journals, butcher knives, and various other small objects. Keim had cleared a space on the floor, and the wall directly behind him was bare. His body completed the tableau. Art and artists often end in tragedy and obscurity, but Keim’s story doesn’t end with his death. A few years later, 180 miles away from Keim’s grave, a bulldozer operator uncovered a pine coffin in an old beaver swamp down the road from Allen C. Shelton’s farm. He quickly reburied it, but Shelton, a friend of Keim’s who had a suitcase of his unfinished projects, became convinced that his friend wasn’t dead and fixed in the ground, but moving between this world and the next in a traveling coffin in search of his incomplete work. In Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, Shelton ushers us into realms of fantasy, revelation, and reflection, paced with a slow unfurling of magical correspondences. Though he is trained as a sociologist, this is a genre-crossing work of literature, a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead. What follows isn’t a ghost story but an exciting and extraordinary kind of narrative. The psycho-sociological landscape that Shelton constructs for his reader is as evocative of Kafka, Bataille, and Benjamin as it is of Weber, Foucault, and Marx. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the author’s relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style.

Author : Henry Darger
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847822843
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Darger written by Henry Darger and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John M. MacGregor
Publisher : gce
ISBN 13 : 9788887469196
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry J. Darger. Nei regni dell'irreale written by John M. MacGregor and published by gce. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Leisa Rundquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999001066
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betwixt-And-Between written by Leisa Rundquist and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Darger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darger written by Henry Darger and published by . This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Nealon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380617
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundlings written by Christopher Nealon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to “feel historical”? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century—poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse works together by highlighting a coming-of-age narrative he calls “foundling”—a term for queer disaffiliation from and desire for family, nation, and history. The young runaways in Cather’s novels, the way critics conflated Crane’s homosexual body with his verse, the suggestive poses and utopian captions of muscle magazines, and Beebo Brinker, the aging butch heroine from Ann Bannon’s pulp novels—all embody for Nealon the uncertain space between two models of lesbian and gay sexuality. The “inversion” model dominant in the first half of the century held that homosexuals are souls of one gender trapped in the body of another, while the more contemporary “ethnic” model refers to the existence of a distinct and collective culture among gay men and lesbians. Nealon’s unique readings, however, reveal a constant movement between these two discursive poles, and not, as is widely theorized, a linear progress from one to the other. This startlingly original study will interest those working on gay and lesbian studies, American literature and culture, and twentieth-century history.

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005297
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latter-day Screens written by Brenda R. Weber and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026894936
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.