Art Thread Number One: Henry Darger

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― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Monday, 14 February 2005 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Monday, 14 February 2005 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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In 1968, Darger became interested in tracing some of his frustrations back to his childhood. It was in this year that he wrote The History of My Life, a book that spends 206 pages detailing his early life before veering off into 4,672 pages of fiction about a huge twister called "Sweetie Pie."

― he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Monday, 14 February 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)

a coupla years ago my friend got his girlfriend a book of darger prints at her request and i think he was kind of weirded out

― (allenriley), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a theory that Darger depicted girls with penises because he'd never seen one naked in his life.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

okay! ... i was wondering why parts looked like other parts.

― msp (msp), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I'm kicking myself for missing the documentary on Darger that just played in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a theory that Darger depicted girls with penises because he'd never seen one naked in his life.

Plausible. There's the rumor that when John Ruskin saw his wife naked for the first time he freaked out since the classic nude paintings he'd studied hadn't prepared him for PUBIC HAIR ON A WOMAN.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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