Discovering 'Realms' of a Secluded Mind ; Documentary Examines Reclusive Janitor's Fantasy World of Art, Children, Good and Evil
The Washington Times › February 07, 2005
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"In the Realms of the Unreal," exclusively at the Landmark E Street Cinema, provides a rare and invaluable glimpse into a kind of teeming basement room of the imagination. It was furnished over the course of a long lifetime by a naive, self-taught illustrator- fabulist named Henry Joseph Darger (1892-1973).
He made a subsistence living at a menial job, a custodian in a Catholic charity organization in his native Chicago. From the seclusion and obscurity of a small rented apartment, he produced a vast body of drawings and writings destined to remain beneath the radar of popular or learned scrutiny while he lived.See the full content of this document
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Discovering 'Realms' of a Secluded Mind ; Documentary Examines Reclusive Janitor's Fantasy World of Art, Children, Good and Evil
The title of Jessica Yu's fascinating and haunting biographical- artistic documentary is drawn from Mr. Darger's magnum opus. The 15,000-page adventure epic was typed on a used Remington typ...
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