Henry Darger

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 : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781590208557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy written by Jim Elledge and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Klaus Biesenbach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791385836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Darger written by Klaus Biesenbach and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book presents the extraordinary work of the iconic American "outsider" artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major figure in the history of contemporary art. Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings, natural catastrophes, innocent girls, and murderous soldiers all appear in Darger's scenes, which are reproduced in this book in double-page and gatefold illustrations. In the volume's introductory essay, Klaus Biesenbach examines the radical originality of Darger's art, including his use of collage, incorporation of religious themes and iconography, and frequent juxtaposition of innocence with violence. An essay by Brooke Davis Anderson illuminates Darger's source materials and techniques, while another by Michael Bonesteel puts Darger's life in the context of his work. The book also includes Darger's autobiography, "A History of My Life," introduced by Carl Watson. The only book of its kind, Henry Darger offers an authoritative, balanced, and insightful look at an American master.

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 : Linda Patricia Cleary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320549431
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!

Author : Leisa Rundquist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367748135
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger's Art written by Leisa Rundquist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480459135
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls on the Run written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : Anthony Petullo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0252072774
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Taught and Outsider Art written by Anthony Petullo and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of self-taught and outsider art with a European representation of artists.