| Titre : | Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy : The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Jim Elledge, Auteur ; Henry Darger, Artiste | | Editeur : | New York : Overlook Duckworth | | Année de publication : | 2013 | | Importance : | 1 vol. (396 p.) | | Présentation : | Ill. en coul. / Ill. en noir et blanc | | Format : | 16 x 22,2 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-59020-855-7 | | Note générale : | Cet ouvrage présente un essai littéraire sur la vie de l'artiste Henry Darger (1892-1973). | | Langues : | Anglais | | Catégories : | Art brut -- Etats-Unis
Artistes
Biographie
Darger, Henry Joseph (1892-1973)
Essai (genre littéraire)
| | Mots-clés : | biographie Henry Darger écrivain peintre Dans les Royaumes de l’Irréel The Vivian Girls art brut art outsider | | Résumé : | 4ème de couverture : "Utterly unkown during his lifetime, Henry Darger led a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago’s North Side. When he died, his landlord discovered a trove of more than 30,000 manuscript pages and over three hundred canvases depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world – many featuring hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified, and strangled.
While some art historians have dismissed Darger as possibly psychotic, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged and fearful gay man, abandoned by his father at a young age and raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. Drawn from tens of thousands of pages of primary source material, fascinating accounts of the vice-ridden districts of early-twentieth-century Chicago, and Elledge’s own work in queer history, « Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy » painstakingly reconstructs the artist’s life from the vivid imagery and guarded correspondence he left behind. This groundbreaking book also features full-color reproductions of Darger’s famously controversial artwork and previously unpublished photographs of Darger with his lifelong companion Willian Schloeder, or « Whillie » as Henry affectionately referred to him. Engaging, arresting, and ultimately illuminating, « Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy » brings to life a complex and compelling man whose brilliant outsider art is a triumph over a lifetime of trauma."
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Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy : The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist [texte imprimé] / Jim Elledge, Auteur ; Henry Darger, Artiste . - New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2013 . - 1 vol. (396 p.) : Ill. en coul. / Ill. en noir et blanc ; 16 x 22,2 cm. ISBN : 978-1-59020-855-7 Cet ouvrage présente un essai littéraire sur la vie de l'artiste Henry Darger (1892-1973). Langues : Anglais | Catégories : | Art brut -- Etats-Unis
Artistes
Biographie
Darger, Henry Joseph (1892-1973)
Essai (genre littéraire)
| | Mots-clés : | biographie Henry Darger écrivain peintre Dans les Royaumes de l’Irréel The Vivian Girls art brut art outsider | | Résumé : | 4ème de couverture : "Utterly unkown during his lifetime, Henry Darger led a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago’s North Side. When he died, his landlord discovered a trove of more than 30,000 manuscript pages and over three hundred canvases depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world – many featuring hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified, and strangled.
While some art historians have dismissed Darger as possibly psychotic, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged and fearful gay man, abandoned by his father at a young age and raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. Drawn from tens of thousands of pages of primary source material, fascinating accounts of the vice-ridden districts of early-twentieth-century Chicago, and Elledge’s own work in queer history, « Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy » painstakingly reconstructs the artist’s life from the vivid imagery and guarded correspondence he left behind. This groundbreaking book also features full-color reproductions of Darger’s famously controversial artwork and previously unpublished photographs of Darger with his lifelong companion Willian Schloeder, or « Whillie » as Henry affectionately referred to him. Engaging, arresting, and ultimately illuminating, « Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy » brings to life a complex and compelling man whose brilliant outsider art is a triumph over a lifetime of trauma."
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Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy : The Tragic Life of an Outsider Artist
