Realm of the Unreal : Henry Darger

Realm of the Unreal

je suis toujours fasciné par ces histoires d'artistes qui à un détail près ont failli rester dans l'oubli...

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"Henry Darger died in 1973 in a Catholic mission operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor. He was buried in a paupers' cemetery. He had no family or friends. The neighbors in his north Chicago apartment building remembered him as an odd, unkempt man who scavenged through garbage cans and talked to himself in numerous voices. He attended mass every day, often several times a day, but otherwise led a solitary life.

Unknown to his neighbors and to everyone, Darger had been creating and compiling a massive literary and graphic body of work since 1909. If Darger's landlord, photographer Nathan Lerner, had not sorted through the collection of scavenged debris in Darger's apartment after he moved to the mission, the writings and paintings certainly would have been lost. "