Henry Darger
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Henry Darger
Prestel , In cooperation with the American Folk Art Museum, c2014
2nd ed
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Includes folded pages
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317)
Contents of Works
- Excerpt from Girls on the run / John Ashbery
- Introduction : American innocence / Klaus Biesenbach
- Sources and drawings : a portfolio
- An artist's studio at 851 Webster Avenue / Brooke Davis Anderson
- Henry Darger's great crusade, crisis of faith, and last judgment / Michael Bonesteel
- The metaphysics of wreckage : introduction to the autobiography of Henry Darger / Carl Watson
- The history of my life / Henry Darger
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now available again in a new format, this lavishly illustrated volume presents 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.
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