Henry Darger Throwaway Boy

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1590208552

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Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy by Jim Elledge Pdf

"Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscript pages depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world-many showing hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified and strangled. While some art historians tend to dismiss Darger as an unhinged psychopath, in Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged, fearful, gay man, raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. This thoughtful, sympathetic biography tells the true story of a tragically misunderstood artist. Drawn from fascinating histories of the vice-ridden districts of 1900s Chicago, tens of thousands of pages of primary source material, and Elledge's own work in queer history, the book also features a full-color reproduction of a never-before-seen canvas from a private gallery in New York, as well as a previously undiscovered photograph of Darger with his life-partner Whillie. Engaging and arresting, Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy brings alive a complex, brave, and compelling man whose outsider art is both challenging and a triumph over trauma"--

Author : Henry Darger,Brook Davis Anderson,American Folk Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049559266

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Darger by Henry Darger,Brook Davis Anderson,American Folk Art Museum Pdf

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. This volume catalogues the American Folk Art Museum's recent acquisition of 37 Darger paintings.

Author : Michael Moon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822351566

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Darger's Resources by Michael Moon Pdf

Moon turns his attention to the artist Henry Darger, an eccentric and self-taught artist whose work was only discovered after his death. Since then the work has become famous, but Darger himself has generally been seen as a withdrawn outsider artist whose work may have been the result of mental illness. Moon provides a contrasting view of a creative and gifted artist very responsive to the world around him.

Author : Henry Darger,Michael Bonesteel
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847822842

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Henry Darger by Henry Darger,Michael Bonesteel Pdf

The epic vision of outsider artist Henry Darger is captured for the first time in this comprehensive survey of his art and writings. A janitor by day, he spent his nights creating a vast, imaginative world describing a cosmic battle between the forces of good and evil. 125 color illustrations.

Author : Klaus Biesenbach
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791385839

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Henry Darger by Klaus Biesenbach Pdf

This beautiful book presents the extraordinary work of the iconic American "outsider" artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major figure in the history of contemporary art. Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative. Angel-like Blengins with butterfly wings, natural catastrophes, innocent girls, and murderous soldiers all appear in Darger's scenes, which are reproduced in this book in double-page and gatefold illustrations. In the volume's introductory essay, Klaus Biesenbach examines the radical originality of Darger's art, including his use of collage, incorporation of religious themes and iconography, and frequent juxtaposition of innocence with violence. An essay by Brooke Davis Anderson illuminates Darger's source materials and techniques, while another by Michael Bonesteel puts Darger's life in the context of his work. The book also includes Darger's autobiography, "A History of My Life," introduced by Carl Watson. The only book of its kind, Henry Darger offers an authoritative, balanced, and insightful look at an American master.

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781613739389

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The Boys of Fairy Town by Jim Elledge Pdf

A history of gay Chicago told through the stories of queer men who left a record of their sexual activities in the Second City, this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives. Some, such as reporter John Wing, were public figures. Others, like Henry Gerber, who created the first "homophile" organization in the United States, were practically invisible to their contemporaries. But their stories are all riveting. Female impersonators and striptease artists Quincy de Lang and George Quinn were arrested and put on trial at the behest of a leader of Chicago's anti-"indecency" movement. African American ragtime pianist Tony Jackson's most famous song, "Pretty Baby," was written about one of his male lovers. Alfred Kinsey's explorations of the city's netherworld changed the future of American sexuality while confirming his own queer proclivities. What emerges from The Boys of Fairy Town is a complex portrait and a virtually unknown history of one of the most vibrant cities in the United States.

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Outsider artists
ISBN : OCLC:946962466

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Henry Darger, Throw-away Boy by Jim Elledge Pdf

Author : Monica Wood
Publisher : Godine+ORM
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781567926743

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Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood Pdf

The bestselling author of The One-in-a-Million Boy has crafted a story collection that “illuminates the grace in the average and everyday” of a small town (San Francisco Chronicle). In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration, Ernie builds the ark as a work of art for his wife to see from the window; a vessel to carry them both away; or a plea for God to spare Marie, come hell or high water. As the ark takes shape, the rest of the town carries on. There’s Dan Little, a building-code enforcer who comes to fine Ernie for the ark and makes a significant discovery about himself; Francine Love, a precocious thirteen-year-old who longs to be a part of the family-like world of the union workers; and Atlantic Pulp & Paper CEO Henry John McCoy, an impatient man wearily determined to be a good father to his twenty-six-year-old daughter. The people of Abbott Falls will try their best to hold a community together, against the fiercest of odds . . . Few writers can capture the extraordinary within seemingly ordinary lives as does Monica Wood. An unforgettable tapestry of love, loneliness—and neighbors. “Like Elizabeth Strout, her fellow chronicler of small-town Maine life, Monica Wood imbues her characters with the complexity and humanity of real people. Ernie’s Ark is as true as life.” ?Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641605687

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An Angel in Sodom by Jim Elledge Pdf

Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago's gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for "disorderly conduct," and falling in love. He was institutionalized for being gay, branded an "enemy alien" at the end of World War I, and given a choice: to rejoin the army or be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary. Gerber re-enlisted and was sent to Germany in 1920. In Berlin, he discovered a vibrant gay rights movement, which made him vow to advocate for the rights of gay men at home. He founded the Society for Human Rights, the first legally recognized US gay-rights organization, on December 10, 1924. When police caught wind of it, he and two members were arrested. He lost his job, went to court three times, and went bankrupt. Released, he moved to New York, disheartened. Later in life, he joined the DC chapter of the Mattachine Society, a gay-rights advocacy group founded by Harry Hay who had heard of Gerber's group, leading him to found Mattachine. An Angel in Sodom is the first and long overdue biography of the founder of the first US gay rights organization.

Author : Greg Merritt
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781613747957

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Room 1219 by Greg Merritt Pdf

Part biography, part true-crime narrative, this painstakingly researched book chronicles the improbable rise and stunning fall of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle from his early big screen success to his involvement in actress Virginia Rappe’s death, and the resulting irreparable damage to his career. It describes how during the course of a rowdy party hosted by the comedian in a San Francisco hotel, Rappe became fatally ill, and Arbuckle was subsequently charged with manslaughter. Ultimately acquitted after three trials, neither his career nor his reputation ever recovered from this devastating incident. Relying on a careful examination of documents, the book finally reveals what most likely occurred that Labor Day weekend in 1921 in that fateful hotel room. In addition, it covers the evolution of the film industry—from the first silent experiments to the connection between Arbuckle’s scandal and the implementation of industry-wide censorship that altered the course of Hollywood filmmaking for five decades.

Author : Irwin Chusid
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781556523724

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Songs in the Key of Z by Irwin Chusid Pdf

Irwin Chusid profiles a number of "outsider" musicians - those who started as "outside" and eventually came "in" when the listening public caught up with their radical ideas. Included are The Shaggs, Tiny Tim, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, Wesley Wilis, and others.

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Outsider artists
ISBN : OCLC:946962466

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Henry Darger, Throw-away Boy by Jim Elledge Pdf

Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521851923

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Introducing Semantics by Nick Riemer Pdf

An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.

Author : Jim Elledge,David Groff
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299289430

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Who’s Yer Daddy? by Jim Elledge,David Groff Pdf

Who’s Yer Daddy? offers readers of gay male literature a keen and engaging journey. In this anthology, thirty-nine gay authors discuss individuals who have influenced them—their inspirational “daddies.” The essayists include fiction writers, poets, and performance artists, both honored masters of contemporary literature and those just beginning to blaze their own trails. They find their artistic ancestry among not only literary icons—Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, André Gide, Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Edmund White—but also a roster of figures whose creative territories are startlingly wide and vital, from Botticelli to Bette Midler to Captain Kirk. Some writers chronicle an entire tribal council of mentors; others describe a transformative encounter with a particular individual, including teachers and friends whose guidance or example cracked open their artistic selves. Perhaps most moving are the handful of writers who answered the question literally, writing intimately of their own fathers and their literary inheritance. This rich volume presents intriguing insights into the contemporary gay literary aesthetic. Winner, LGBT Nonfiction Anthology, Lambda Literary Awards

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478005292

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Latter-day Screens by Brenda R. Weber Pdf

From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.