blakjeezis
12-02-2003, 11:01 AM
I just found this on one of the movie news sites I visit, CHUD (http://www.chud.com), and it has seriously piqued my interest:
Henry Darger was one batshit crazy motherfucker. He died in 1973, dirt poor, and was buried in a pauper's grave. When his belongings were gone through it turns out that he had written a FIFTEEN THOUSAND PAGE, TWELVE VOLUME epic called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, as caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Take that, Tolkein.
But that isn't even the nutty part. The nutty part isn't that he made intricate and beautiful watercolor paintings to illustrate his story. What's really weird about this guy wasn't even the incredibly detailed violence and torture he visits upon his child characters both in text and painting. It's the fact that he painted all the girl characters with penises. HUH?
Here's a synopsis of the epic, courtesy of Darger exhibit curator Stephen Prokopoff :
The story recounts the wars between nations on an enormous and unnamed planet, of which Earth is a moon. The confict is provoked by the Glandelinians, who practice child enslavement. After hundreds of ferocious battles, the good Christian nation of Abbiennia forces the 'haughty' Glandelinians to give up their barbarous ways. The heroines of Darger's history are the seven Vivian sisters, Abbiennian princesses. They are aided in their struggles by a panoply of heroes, who are sometimes the author's alter-egos. The battles are full of vivid incident: charging armies, ominous captures, alarms and explosions, the appearances of demons and dragons.
This has got me all fired up, and I need more. Has anyone read these books? Are they in print? Where can I get them? Does anyone know anything more about this guy and/or where I can find info on him?
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This message was edited by blakjeezis on 12-2-03 @ 3:05 PM
Henry Darger was one batshit crazy motherfucker. He died in 1973, dirt poor, and was buried in a pauper's grave. When his belongings were gone through it turns out that he had written a FIFTEEN THOUSAND PAGE, TWELVE VOLUME epic called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, as caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Take that, Tolkein.
But that isn't even the nutty part. The nutty part isn't that he made intricate and beautiful watercolor paintings to illustrate his story. What's really weird about this guy wasn't even the incredibly detailed violence and torture he visits upon his child characters both in text and painting. It's the fact that he painted all the girl characters with penises. HUH?
Here's a synopsis of the epic, courtesy of Darger exhibit curator Stephen Prokopoff :
The story recounts the wars between nations on an enormous and unnamed planet, of which Earth is a moon. The confict is provoked by the Glandelinians, who practice child enslavement. After hundreds of ferocious battles, the good Christian nation of Abbiennia forces the 'haughty' Glandelinians to give up their barbarous ways. The heroines of Darger's history are the seven Vivian sisters, Abbiennian princesses. They are aided in their struggles by a panoply of heroes, who are sometimes the author's alter-egos. The battles are full of vivid incident: charging armies, ominous captures, alarms and explosions, the appearances of demons and dragons.
This has got me all fired up, and I need more. Has anyone read these books? Are they in print? Where can I get them? Does anyone know anything more about this guy and/or where I can find info on him?
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This message was edited by blakjeezis on 12-2-03 @ 3:05 PM