Henry Darger / edited and with an introduction by Klaus Biesenbach ; contributions by Brooke Davis Anderson, Michael Bonesteel and Carl Watson ; with Henry Darger's The history of my life.

Date:
2014
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2014.

Physical description

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 x 34 cm

Edition

2nd edition.

Notes

Originally published: 2009.
Published in cooperation with the American Folk Art Museum.

Contents

Excerpt from Girls on the run / John Ashbery -- Introduction: American innocence / Klaus Biesenbach -- The art of Henry Darger. Sources and drawings : a portfolio -- An artist's studio at 851 Webster Avenue / Brooke Davis Anderson -- Plates -- The life of Henry Darger. Henry Darger's great crusade, crisis of faith, and last judgment / Michael Bonesteel -- The metaphysics of wreckage : introduction to the autobiography of Henry Darger / Carl Watson -- The history of my life / Henry Darger.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 317).

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    Folios
    BZP (Darger)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9783791349190
  • 3791349198