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·达戈(1892-1973)

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Henry Darger亨利·达戈(1892-1973) ,难道光猪是Henry Darger转世?

在世时并不为人所知。

达戈很小的时候就被瘸子父亲送进孤儿院，13岁的时候父亲去世 ，他就被关在那里了。

达戈一直试图逃跑，终于在1908年，他16岁的时候成功了。他在教会医院找到了打杂的工作，一干就是50年。他的生活只有很少的变化，他每 天参加弥撒，时常和其他四个打杂的一起回到医院做工；他唯一稍引人注目的地方是喜欢从街上的垃圾里捡回奇怪的东西(这可是超现实主义画家的典型症状)。1930年，他租到了 芝加哥一座二层小楼的顶层，在那里生活了40多年。直到1973年他孤独地死去，他不寻常的秘密才被人发现。

在一大堆的零碎东西——包括数以百计的药瓶、上千堆废报纸、杂志和漫画书、拙劣的宗教小塑像和其他东西之间，他的房东——摄影家内森 ·勒特内找到了一个隐士经营一生的作品——超大量的文字和图片作品。其中的基石是一部12卷的图文大书。他在19000页标准纸张上不空行地 打印出了一个叫“儿童奴隶造反”的故事，名字超长，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.” 。这个故事发生在一个没有名字的星球上，地球只是它的一个“月球”。Glandelinians把儿童当作奴隶，七个“恶魔姐妹”领导着儿童奋起反抗。

有趣的是，这个貌似绘画技术很不错的完全业余画家，并不会画画，他的人物，树木，花草，鸟，还有大山和云彩都是从杂志上，漫画书上，儿童图书上描下来的，如果大小不合适，他就在街边的杂货店里用摄影师常用的的方法放大使之合适．

而正是因为使用了这种方法，使他的画面具有了拼贴画一样的效果，画面上的人物的位置与动作经常让人感到有点“不对劲”，这种效果比那些“正常”的绘画给人以明确的非现实感，同时也使画面变得大气而且丰富。