Moon Darger's Resources

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9489-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Moon turns his attention to the artist Henry Darger, an eccentric and self-taught artist whose work was only discovered after his death. Since then the work has become famous, but Darger himself has generally been seen as a withdrawn outsider artist whose work may have been the result of mental illness. Moon provides a contrasting view of a creative and gifted artist very responsive to the world around him.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moon, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1. Darger's Book of Martyrs 25

2. Rotten Truths, Wasted Lives, Spoiled Collections: Darger's Work and the Brontës' Juvenilia 43

3. Abduction, Adoption, Appropriation: Darger and the Early Newspaper Comic Strip; or, Reading Around in the Ruins of a Proletarian Public Sphere 79

4. Weird Flesh, World's Flesh: Darger and the Pulps 101

Notes 131

Bibliography 141

Acknowledgments 145

Index 149

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Moon is Professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass. His books, A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol; Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill (edited with Cathy N. Davidson); and Displacing Homophobia (edited with Ronald Butters and John M. Clum), are also published by Duke University Press.