Henry Darger spent his life working as a janitor in Catholic hospitals, living alone in a rented room on Chicago's north side, attending Mass up to five times a day, and writing a picaresque tale in 15 massive volumes, composed of 145 handwritten pages and 5,084 single-spaced typed pages, and titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. To accompany this enormous literary production, Darger also created several hundred large-scale illustrations--pencil on paper drawings painted over with watercolor and occasional additions of collage--that relate the story: on an unnamed planet, of which Earth is a moon, the good Christian nation of Anniennia wars with the Glandelinians, who practice child enslavement. The heroines are the seven Vivian sisters, Abbiennian princesses, who, after many battles, fires, tempests, and lurid torture, succeed in forcing the Glandelinians to give up their barbarous ways. The Disasters of War offers an affordable introduction to Darger's astonishing outsider oeuvre. It explains the technique, diligence and creativity of the works, illustrates details, and features a conversation between the Darger estate holder and the Kunstwerke's curator. A selection of 12 previously unpublished excerpts from The Realms of the Unreal and from Darger's diary explore the artist's favorite topics: thunderstorms and atrocities. With a biography and exhibition history.
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Buy A Different Darger Book,
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This review is from: Henry Darger: Disasters Of War (Paperback)
The reproductions in this book aren't as sharp as they are in other books I have and there are too many pages of cropped detail photos. The paperback format is a little flimsy and this is only Darger book I have (out of 4) that is presented vertically. Why is this important? All of Darger's work is very wide so in order to show them off the best the book needs to be in a horizontal format. Seems very basic but this book decided to go vertical which wasn't a good choice. The content here can be found in any of the other Darger books so this is definitely not recommended at all.
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goood boook,
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i like the book would have been nice if there were more background on the man but i think this was what they intended mostly to show the images
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Janitor or Genius,
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This review is from: Henry Darger: Disasters Of War (Paperback)
This is my favorite book about outsider artist Henry Darger. Check out the amazing film by Mark Salzman's wife. The bio, Man in the Polka Dotted Dress is not coming out cuz the guy who sells Darger for thousands bills is dirty. No oneis finding Darger's long lost sister. Chill out, you are still rich cuz of another man's genius.
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