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	Henry Darger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Darger (April 12?, 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and illustrator who worked as a janitor in the Chicago, Illinois area.
		Darger was a janitor at a Catholic hospital and a devout Roman Catholic who went to mass daily.
		Darger often concerned himself with the plight of abused and neglected children; the institution where he had lived was brought under investigation in a huge scandal shortly after he left, and he might have seen victims of child abuse in the hospital where he worked.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Darger (1649 words)

	zingmagazine \| issue #4 \| reviews \| henry darger
		Henry Darger worked menial jobs his entire life, dying in 1972 at the age of 80.
		For Darger, the use of collage was primary.
		Henry Darger's fame is not such that the marketplace will bear the burden of collectable action figures, but if you'd gone on the weekend it was wonderfully popular and diverse in audience, energetic in discourse.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing4/reviews/07darger.html (1664 words)

	Cabinet Magazine Online - The Moral Storm: Henry Darger's Book of Weather Reports
		Darger is concerned, for instance, as much with periods of continuous temperature as with shifts—"3 to 7 am 57" (10/21/1958).
		At first Darger does not abbreviate anything, as though the exercise of painstakingly writing out the month and all of the verbs and prepositions inside the weather notation would prolong the very state of awareness he seems to be after.
		Darger's minute, endless projects of sorting twine and cord give rise to explosions—threats to the icons in his room and curses directed at the saints and heaven—all of which he meticulously documents, but then seldom takes responsibility for: "Tantrums over difficulty with twine and cord.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/3/henrydarger.php (2694 words)

	The Anthony Petullo Collection of SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART - Henry Darger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Henry Darger, born in Chicago in 1892, had young life that was filled with loss and sorrow, a precursor to the isolation of his adult life.
		Darger’s work is characterized by his masterful sense of color and composition that provides a framework for the saga of the seven Vivian sisters and scenes of sometimes horrific violence.
		At the age of 83, Darger was no longer able to climb the stairs to his apartment and was admitted to a nursing home where he died one day after his 84th birthday.
	www.petulloartcollection.com /artistprofile.asp?refArtistID=13 (482 words)

	Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings book review - The Outsider Art Pages
		Darger is a major figure in 20th Century American art, and Bonesteel's disciplined introductory essay adds significantly to the well-known scraps of his story while avoiding the overreaching analysis so common to writing on outsiders.
		Darger morbidly obsessed with little girls is one of the less interesting readings of the material, though.
		Darger may have been queer, he may have been compulsive, but it seems clear that to a great extent he knew what he was about.
	www.interestingideas.com /out/darger.htm (1122 words)

	The Unrequited Henry Darger
		Darger's The Realms (the preferred abbreviation) is a 15,145 page novel, single spaced, and typed on legal-sized paper for which this exhibition is illustration.
		Henry's journal must have been inspired by countless hours working in front of a tiny window through Chicago's less than kind winters and his having been witness to the immense destruction of Countrybrown, IL, by tornado, in 1913.
		Henry Darger's fame is not such that the market-place will bear the burden of collectable kiddie-porn action figures, but if you go on the weekend it's wonderfully popular, energetic in discourse, like the Met it's free, and thank God the multi-media display is out of the flow of traffic.
	www.outpostedit.com /friends/darger (1760 words)

	Henry Darger
		Darger was certainly an untutored artist in any traditional sense and his work, like that of other outsiders, stands outside of the history of art.
		Darger’s compositions are commonly set in expansive landscapes or, somewhat less frequently, in interiors, both particularly well-suited to the horizontal format he favored.
		Darger’s skies, for example, are always active, often with storm clouds and networks of lightning or with cloud forms containing double images of figures or faces.
	www.hammergallery.com /Artists/darger/Darger.htm (1802 words)

	ArtScope.net: Henry Darger: Realms of the Unreal
		Darger's art, by those precedents, fits well as 'Outsider' art, and it does so in its execution as well, although in content, it is distinctly Henry Darger.
		Darger's tale, and its art, is the crucial, only real topic; not the artist nor, necessarily, even the means by which he achieves his art.
		Darger's seems a proto-art: a substitute: an impulse turned and thwarted: a grand and fascinating idiosyncracy, leading inward from the world outside; and where it leads is to a hurt and solitary man, a lone and single resident within a room in a very large city of walking masks.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/Darger1000.shtml (2340 words)

	Raw Vision
		Relatively late in the study of Darger's room and its chaotically disorganized contents, it was discovered that he had become involved with the writing of a sequel to In the Realms of the Unreal.
		The Henry Darger we encounter as author of this later work seems significantly less naive and, in a curious way, more candid as he presents the reader with what are often overtly erotic sexual fantasies of a wildly perverse sadistic nature.
		Darger's description of the death of this child in the kitchen of the haunted house goes on for over fifty pages, in the middle of which he informs us: 'The description of the demonical rape is not to be given here.
	www.rawvision.com /back/darger/darger.html (2597 words)

	ArtScope.net: Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings (Book Review)
		Darger may have "lifted" his images via tracing from newspaper images, syndicated comic strips, coloring books and the like, but by the time they were filtered through his artistic perception (often increased or decreased in size), they became utterly his own.
		Darger is an intriguing subject: his copious output, his dreadful childhood, the questions of his sanity, his undeniable mastery of composition -- especially as a wholly self-taught artist, wholly reclusive, with no recourse to salons or the society of fellow artists.
		As an additional note, in October 2000, an exhibition of Henry Darger's work, Henry Darger: Realms of the Unreal was held at Chicago's Carl Hammer Gallery and was reviewed by ArtScope.net.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/DargerArt0401.shtml (1378 words)

	Salon Directory
		Henry Darger is doubtless the world's most celebrated lifelong menial laborer, having worked diligently not only as a janitor, but also in later life as a dishwasher and (finally) a winder of gauze bandages.
		Darger was truly a man of several careers, and John MacGregor's "In the Realms of the Unreal" represents a definitive, 10-year, 720-page critical study of his life and work.
		Darger was a fireplug of a man, mentally ill in the unspecifiable way of the self-muttering recluse, and his fame comes from what was discovered during the cleaning out of the room he inhabited for 40 years, once he finally left its solitude, at 81, for a charity-ward deathbed.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/07/23/darger/index.html (890 words)

	Henry Darger book reviews - The Outsider Art Pages
		Darger avoided sexual encounters because he feared an unknowing liaison with a sister given up for adoption shortly after her birth (a birth that also robbed Darger of his mother when he was four).
		Darger was "posed on the edge of violent and irrational sadistic and murderous activity," he says.
		The reader of Henry Darger In the Realms of the Unreal may be forgiven a hint of the same feeling.
	www.interestingideas.com /out/darger2.htm (2821 words)

	Mysterious, quirky Henry Darger a study in contrasts
		Very little has been pieced together about Darger's secretive world, but that did not deter filmmaker Jessica Yu, whose new documentary "In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mysterious Life and Art of Henry Darger" is an absorbing and thoughtful account that approaches the topic with a simple curiosity that flowers into creative filmmaking.
		Darger (1892-1973) had a hard, disturbing childhood, which is thought to have influenced his writing and art.
		Darger's fantasy world revolved around seven young moppets, the Vivian Girls, who take part in a thunderous four-year war against the Glandelinians, a race of fallen Catholics who enslave and torture children.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/wkp-news-realms21.html (634 words)

	Henry Darger: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Henry Darger died in 1973 in a Catholic mission operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
		Darger often employed collage or traced figures from comic strips and children's books, but his keen sense of composition and use of vivid color allowed him to create landscapes, battle scenes, portraits, and even an odalisque, of incredible intensity and beauty.
		Darger's paintings, as well as the passages of the Realms of the Unreal they illustrate, often are disturbingly violent.
	www.acer-access.com /~darger@acer-access.com/intro.htm (495 words)

	village voice > arts > The Outsiders by Ed Park
		Henry Darger is an improbable, wrist-wrecking page-turner, and John MacGregor is, in a profound sense, a mystery writer.
		Darger was not yet four; the sister was put up for adoption by his harried father, who would eventually give up raising his increasingly unruly son.
		Darger never knew, or claimed never to have known, his mother's name (or his sister's); MacGregor has discovered that it was Rosa or Rosie—and also that Henry was in fact her third child.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0216/edpark.php (3074 words)

	Voice Literary Supplement: Heroine Addiction
		Darger wrote the better part of Realms and created the accompanying illustrations between 1920 and 1960, at a time when girls were not yet emancipated and depictions of them resembled those in sugary, elementary school Dick-and-Jane primers.
		Darger freed these little girls of their context—ironing, walking in rain slickers, playing with puppies—and expanded their duties to include combat, espionage, and even murder.
		Darger had the sort of life that drives people into therapy, but instead of joining the culture of complaint he worked for 50 years on the story of seven brave little girls fighting injustice.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/170/steinke.shtml (1092 words)

	AlterNet: Henry Darger's Internet
		Half biography, half celebration of infamous "outsider artist" Henry Darger, it explored the life of the antisocial janitor whose tremendous body of artistic and literary works was discovered by his landlords after his death in the early 1970s.
		Darger, who spent his impoverished childhood in convents and a school for the feebleminded, devoted his adult life to the secret production of two massive chronicles of imaginary wars.
		Darger in the Internet age would no doubt have looked like exactly the same person to his landlords: an eccentric old man who stayed up all night in his room doing something mysterious.
	www.alternet.org /columnists/story/21219 (802 words)

	Sara Ayers: Henry Darger Page
		I first saw one of Henry Darger's paintings at a group show at the American Visionary Art Museum and was stunned by the color and composition of the work as well as the heartbreaking story that accompanied it.
		Appreciation of the art of Henry Darger is unequivocally influenced by the known facts of his life: his mother died when he was four years old after giving birth to a baby sister, whom he never saw.
		Darger was apparently not satisfied with his ability to draw the human form, so he used tracings of figures from newspapers, comic books and magazine photographs to illustrate his heroines, compiling a gestural dictionary that he used over and over.
	www.saraayers.com /darger.htm (525 words)

	D2 Press- Cool Dead People - Henry Darger by Suzanne Nielsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darger gives the reader two different endings; the reader can determine for herself whether or not the this is a story about ultimate revenge or a story where forces join together to reveal a metaphorical twist--fiction is far more real than we ever intend it to be.
		Many say Darger was a pedophile of sorts to do so, a schizophrenic who talked in various voices to himself behind closed doors.
		Henry Darger, "who'll love a poor orphan child, lost, growing savage and wild?" All the people like us who keep the Vivian girls, the Harry Potters and the other orphans alive beyond their reams of realities.
	www.doubledarepress.com /2005/08/columns/dead-people.shtml (1249 words)

	In the Realms of the Unreal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With respect to Henry Darger, the question remains to what extent he was an outsider, since his reclusive, near-invisible life reads, thirty years on, more as "insider" art than anything else.
		Darger also left behind long stretches of beautifully finished paintings, several of which depict in graphic detail the brutal torture of the Vivian girls by their enemies.
		And while Darger’s former neighbors testify to his undeniable strangeness—it appears that he acted out the parts of his characters as he wrote, in voices loud enough to be heard throughout the apartment building—the documentary at least acknowledges that it’s likely too late to know for sure.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies10/IntheRealm.htm (678 words)

	Henry Darger biography presented by Andrew Edlin Gallery
		Henry Darger was born in Chicago in 1892.
		Darger lived a solitary life, working as a janitor in a Chicago hospital from around the age of thirty until his retirement in 1963.
		Darger’s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
	www.edlingallery.com /dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=4 (1210 words)

	Filmmaker tries to solve mystery of outsider artist Henry Darger
		It was at a Los Angeles exhibit of paintings by Darger, a Chicago recluse who died in 1973, leaving in his rented room a 15,000-page fantasy novel with 100 illustrations.
		Darger's unpublished novel, written and illustrated in solitude over 60 years, is "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion."
		When Darger drew nude girls he gave them male genitalia - leaving some to wonder if he was a child molester or if he was so naive about sex that he thought little girls had the same equipment as little boys.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0312jessicayu12.html (726 words)

	Jacket 17 - Michael Leddy - Lives and Art: John Ashbery and Henry Darger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Darger gives us a world of children (and their monstrous assailants), but not a world seen with the eyes of childhood: it is impossible to find in his work the magic of the ordinary that one finds in Cornell.
		Darger’s story is in many respects a version of the life of Ern Malley, a poet Ashbery first read in 1945 and a poet of abiding interest to the so-called New York School.
		The Henry who defies authority is of course Henry Darger, who was often heard in his room acting out quarrels with the rather severe nun who was his supervisor at work.
	jacketmagazine.com /17/leddy-ashb.html (4308 words)

	Amazon.com: Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal: Books: John M. MacGregor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His ways of accounting for Darger's peculiar obsessions (suffocstion, evisceration, male genitals on girls) are pwerfully persuasive, and draw upon considerable research into the circumstances of Darger's childhood and the nightmarish conditions at the "asylum" in Illinois where Darger spent much of his youuth.
		Darger's cult of fame is based on the mega-voluminous epic he wrote throughout his solitary life, based on the often incredibly violent adventures of his "heart's darlings", The Vivian Girls.
		Darger's voluminous work, of which the drawings are only the tip of the iceberg, are inaccessable, literally, except for fragments published in a previous collection.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0929445155?v=glance (1473 words)

	Galerie St. Etienne: Henry Darger: Art and Myth
		Darger will also be featured prominently in the Galerie St. Etienne's booth at the Outsider Art Fair (to be held at the Puck Building in New York City from January 23 to 25).
		Whereas Darger may have created his first artworks—mainly portraits of single subjects such as children and the monsters he called Blengins—while writing the novel, his larger pictures were probably done later, between the mid 1930s and the mid 1960s.
		HENRY DARGER: Art and Myth is documented by a comprehensive checklist, which is available by mail free of charge upon request or can be downloaded from the gallery’s web site www.gseart.com.
	www.artnet.com /ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?G=7&cid=56673 (531 words)

	Oscar winner delves into Darger's 'unreal realm'
		For those not yet initiated into the cult of Darger, he was a Chicago janitor who had suffered the early deaths of both parents, spent most of his teenage years in a mental asylum and as an adult led a lonely, reclusive, religion-obsessed life.
		Darger is not for every taste; many of his hundreds of paintings have as subject matter naked little girls, frolicking innocently as little girls do, but sporting penises.
		Yu approached her subject by refusing to read either of the two major biographies that have emerged about Darger, saying that instead she preferred to avail herself directly of the remnants of his mysterious life in Chicago, where his room was turned into a museum by landlord-trustee Kiyoko Lerner.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/18/DDGUTACV8L1.DTL (1154 words)

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