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Darger's Resources (Paperback)
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Darger's Resources (Paperback)
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Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely
productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he
wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal. He
spent much of the rest of his long life illustrating it in
astonishing drawings and watercolors. In Darger's unfolding saga,
pastoral utopias are repeatedly savaged by extreme violence
directed at children, particularly girls. Given his disturbing
subject matter and the extreme solitude he maintained throughout
his life, critics have characterized Darger as eccentric, deranged,
and even dangerous, as an outsider artist compelled to create a
fantasy universe. Contesting such pathologizing interpretations,
Michael Moon looks to Darger's resources, to the narratives and
materials that inspired him and often found their way into his
writing, drawings, and paintings. Moon finds an artist who reveled
in the burgeoning popular culture of the early twentieth century,
in its newspaper comic strips, pulp fiction, illustrated children's
books, and mass-produced religious art. Moon contends that Darger's
work deserves and rewards comparison with that of contemporaries of
his, such as the "pulp historians" H. P. Lovecraft and Robert
Howard, the Oz chronicler L. Frank Baum, and the newspaper
cartoonist Bud Fisher.
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