Since his death in 1973, Henry Darger, janitor, orphan, writer and artist, has found increasing posthumous fame as an artist of influence, particularly for a generation of North American artists born in the late 60s and early 70s, such as Marcel Dzama, Justine Kurland, Justin Lieberman and Amy Cutler, who have drawn on his colossal oeuvre of drawings and writings, and his bizarre world of transgendered and often partially clothed girls warring against evil adults and monsters, in order to evolve their own worlds of similarly fantastical imagery. Several landmark Darger exhibitions and a hit documentary film (In the Realms of the Unreal) have continued to disseminate his work to wider audiences, rendering the persistent epithet of "outsider artist" almost meaningless. All Darger monographs become rarities with incredible rapidity, and this new hardcover edition of the Andrew Edlin Gallery's excellent introduction to Darger will prove no exception. It contains new and improved images, an updated introduction and updated sections on Darger's exhibition history and public collections. In an accompanying essay Edward Madrid Gomez writes: "knowing what we know about this loner's life, it seems that no one else but Darger could have produced it, in the same way that we cannot imagine the ground-breaking works of such artists as Beethoven, Picasso, Wolfli or Joyce emerging from the minds or spirits of anyone else except these geniuses, whose talents have helped define just how far-reaching and accomplished artistic creativity can be."

Henry Darger was the author of drawings, watercolor scrolls and a 15,000 page novel 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.

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Henry Darger亨利·達戈(1892-1973)

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Henry Darger亨利·達戈(1892-1973) ,難道光豬是Henry Darger轉世?

在世時並不為人所知。

達戈很小的時候就被瘸子父親送進孤兒院，13歲的時候父親去世 ，他就被關在那裏瞭。

達戈一直試圖逃跑，終於在1908年，他16歲的時候成功瞭。他在教會醫院找到瞭打雜的工作，一乾就是50年。他的生活隻有很少的變化，他每 天參加彌撒，時常和其他四個打雜的一起迴到醫院做工；他唯一稍引人注目的地方是喜歡從街上的垃圾裏撿迴奇怪的東西(這可是超現實主義畫傢的典型癥狀)。1930年，他租到瞭 芝加哥一座二層小樓的頂層，在那裏生活瞭40多年。直到1973年他孤獨地死去，他不尋常的秘密纔被人發現。

在一大堆的零碎東西——包括數以百計的藥瓶、上韆堆廢報紙、雜誌和漫畫書、拙劣的宗教小塑像和其他東西之間，他的房東——攝影傢內森 ·勒特內找到瞭一個隱士經營一生的作品——超大量的文字和圖片作品。其中的基石是一部12捲的圖文大書。他在19000頁標準紙張上不空行地 打印齣瞭一個叫“兒童奴隸造反”的故事，名字超長，原文是：“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.” 。這個故事發生在一個沒有名字的星球上，地球隻是它的一個“月球”。Glandelinians把兒童當作奴隸，七個“惡魔姐妹”領導著兒童奮起反抗。

有趣的是，這個貌似繪畫技術很不錯的完全業餘畫傢，並不會畫畫，他的人物，樹木，花草，鳥，還有大山和雲彩都是從雜誌上，漫畫書上，兒童圖書上描下來的，如果大小不閤適，他就在街邊的雜貨店裏用攝影師常用的的方法放大使之閤適．

而正是因為使用瞭這種方法，使他的畫麵具有瞭拼貼畫一樣的效果，畫麵上的人物的位置與動作經常讓人感到有點“不對勁”，這種效果比那些“正常”的繪畫給人以明確的非現實感，同時也使畫麵變得大氣而且豐富。