Monday, May 23, 2011

documentary: In Realms of the Unreal - Henry Darger

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last part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjVjVjKK6zo&feature=related
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'Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (ca. April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called
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, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.Darger's work has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art.'
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Henry Darger on Folkart Museum

Don't miss this one!!
My friend Anna told me about this amazing artist and passed me this documentary.
Wish it was possible to read the whole novel.
What an amazing creative mind and strange character this Henry Darger was.

Please watch,i am sure you won't regret it.
Great documentary with nice animations of Darger's beautiful Art.