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Henry Darger, who died in 1973, was a secretive Chicago janitor who has since been recognised as one of the supreme self-taught artists of the 20th century. His work depicts a turbulent world of good and evil and often proves disturbing. This volume catalogues the American Folk Art Museum's recent acquisition of 37 Darger paintings.
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Sweetly colored, pleasingly composed, and delicately rendered, Henry Darger's scroll-like paintings of armies of transsexual children have had a cult status since they were first shown in 1997 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The museum's paintings are part of a vast series illustrating the artist's 15,000-page story about the rescue of naked abducted children by seven little girls. Darger, a reclusive janitor and self-taught artist with ambivalent feelings about religion, spent his childhood in a Catholic orphanage, and in the years before his death in 1973 attended Mass several times daily. The real virtues of this slender book are the 114 full-color illustrations of the paintings, which range from fanciful nature scenes to gruesome battle images. The chief essay, by Michel Thvoz, is a pretentious effort that treats Darger's startling and wholly original pastiche of images drawn from magazines and coloring books at a fastidious arm's length. --Cathy Curtis
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31 人中、29人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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約３０年前のアメリカ、孤独の中で息をひきとった老人、ヘンリーダーガー。彼の死後、部屋を片付けようとした家主はそこに驚くべき遺品をみつけたのです。それはダーガ-が６０年もの間、誰にも知られることなく描き続けていた１万５千ページ以上に及ぶ物語とそれらに基づく何百枚もの挿絵の束・・・家主が著名なアーティストであったため、それらはまさに「発掘」された衝撃のアートとなったのです。
ダーガ-の生い立ちはあまりにも不幸でした。その不遇な環境のためか、８１歳で亡くなるまで他人と接触することはほとんどなかったそうです。
誰からも声をかけてもらえない、ひきこもりの彼が人生を賭して織り成した物語『非現実の王国で』の一部が、抜粋されてこの本には載っています。
物語は、邪悪な子供奴隷王国に抵抗し戦い抜いて行く７人の姉妹、ヴィヴィアンガールズの活躍ぶりを中心に進んでいきます。お目めパチくりのレトロちっくな少女達が、戦慄の環境に置かれている挿絵は奇妙な感覚を起こさせます。しかし、絵を習ったことのないダーガ-がどうしてこのような美しい色彩を生み出せたのか不思議なくらい、色使いのセンス、全体としての構図は素晴らしいのです。（でも・・・やっぱりどこか、変！）
雑誌の切り抜きなどでコラージュするようにトレースしながら書き足されていった少女達のひとつひとつに、ダーガ-の偏執的なこだわりが感じられます。
しかしだからといって、変態、変質者と言ってヘンリー・ダーガーをばかにしてはいけません、と強く思える・・・そんな絵物語です。
彼は敬虔なクリスチャンであり、現実には少女に手をかけるということはなかったのですから。
ストーリーを追ってみたい方は作品社から出ている『非現実の王国で』をおすすめします。そちらに載っていない絵が多数、こちらには載っています。
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この本が発売された頃手に取り購入しました。色々なHenry Dargerの本が出ていますが色々見比べても内容もこの本が一番好きです。良い纏まり方でHenry Darger作品が載って居る本だと思います。
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Darger: madman or genius
2003/5/3
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I must admit that before i picked up this volume, i wasnt certain of the answer to the aforementioned question. I knew about him, had read bits and pieces about him, but did not know the full scope of his talent.
This book allows the reader to see not just his art, but to catch a glimpse of the sheer magnitude of his madness/genius. The art work is brilliantly reproduced (seeing his stack of journals made the book worthwhile for me).
If you are at all interested in seeing the work and a glimpse of the life of one of the outsider art masters, i suggest that you pick up this book at once.
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Darger Retrospective
2009/8/16
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This was published to go with the large Henry Darger retrospective in New York and has all the great drawings (which are huge) reproduced. Darger had such a unique vision and there is so much detail in his artwork. Is he a genius? Yes!
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Q: madness or genius? A: madness
2004/10/14
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there is no question, henry darger is not a genius. the fascinating visual effect of his pictures is not contrived, it is the real result of an extremely neurotic man. but that's what makes these pictures so hard to forget.
to put them in context, almost all of the known works of henry darger are a part of the same epic narrative project. the drawings are accompanied by a 5,000 page plus text, telling the story of the vivian girls.
darger was not very good at drawing figures, so he traced photos and cartoons he clipped from magazines and newspapers. supposedly he once lost the newspaper photo of a kidnapped girl that he had been using for one of the main characters, and this forced him to write into the story a search for her. he was so frustrated by this loss that he cursed god and exhibited some sort of religious tantrum.
it is very interesting to look at his pictures and speculate on how each one came to be. i saw one in a museum, which had four cowboys on horses, positioned in a diamond formation, each lasoing a little girl. the space created is distorted like an optical illusion, with spots collapsing and overlapping in ways that do not make sense, so that you can see one object appears in front of another in one spot but behind it in another.
these pictures might give you nightmares or cause seizures.
to put them in context, almost all of the known works of henry darger are a part of the same epic narrative project. the drawings are accompanied by a 5,000 page plus text, telling the story of the vivian girls.
darger was not very good at drawing figures, so he traced photos and cartoons he clipped from magazines and newspapers. supposedly he once lost the newspaper photo of a kidnapped girl that he had been using for one of the main characters, and this forced him to write into the story a search for her. he was so frustrated by this loss that he cursed god and exhibited some sort of religious tantrum.
it is very interesting to look at his pictures and speculate on how each one came to be. i saw one in a museum, which had four cowboys on horses, positioned in a diamond formation, each lasoing a little girl. the space created is distorted like an optical illusion, with spots collapsing and overlapping in ways that do not make sense, so that you can see one object appears in front of another in one spot but behind it in another.
these pictures might give you nightmares or cause seizures.
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