Henry Darger
“Henry Darger (1892–1973) was a solitary man who was orphaned and institutionalised as a child. In the privacy of his Chicago apartment, he produced 15,000 pages of text and hundreds of large scale illustrations, including maps, collaged photos and watercolors that depict his child heroes “the Vivian Girls” in the midst of battle scenes that combine imagery of the US Civil War with fanciful monsters”…so says wikipedia. There was a talk about him when i was at art school but somehow I missed it (that was before the internet). There’s a film too.
Tags: Henry Darger, Outsider Art
The film is defiantly worth watching it you haven’t already, its extremely interesting.
I haven’t but i have been looking. Looks like it’s quite hard to get a hold of though…