In the Realms of the Unreal

[Dave Monroe]

I ultimately couldn't watch it last night (entire life
collapsing, so ...), couldn't concentrate on it, at
any rate, so, while I saw it theatrically a while
back, it's not fresh on my mind, but ...

But I went to a couple of lectures by one of his
biographers, Michael Bonesteel, a few years ago, and
what I thought particuolarly interesting was not only
the archaeology of the sources of his images (we've an
illustration in town that makes obvious use of a
photograph of Hitler, and a friend pointed out the
Civil War general Braxton Bragg), but also of his
text.  There are some quite lyrical passages,
including some that, given their contexts ad the
uneven quality of teh writing in general, were very
likely lifted from other sources, albeit likely
popular/pulp fiction that, by virtute of its
evanescence, one would have to be either lucky,
prodigious, or obseessive to unearth today.  A la,
say, The Kenosha Kid ...

--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The POV website also has some very good links to
> Darger's work.
> 
> http://www.pbs.org/pov/
> 
> What was very interesting in last night show was
> that Drager's drawings were accompanied by text,
> essentially a novel of very extended length, in
> which he inserted himself as one of the main "good-
> guy" characters.  And Darger's diary excerpts show
> that he was quite intelligent, not "feeble-minded"
> at all.  This documentary was very well done.


		
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