Henry Darger--items from a catalog

[JD]

Oh, and the animation style shown in the documentary actually reminded me a
bit (a bit) of Winsor McKay.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:18 PM, JD <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:

> The documentary is good.  For those with Netflix accounts it can be
> streamed from their web site (no waiting for it to show up in your mail
> box).
>
> It would be nice to have all of those texts (the 15,145 page Realms of the
> Unreal, the 5,084 page autobiography, and I guess a second novel of over
> 10,000 words according to wikipedia) to sort of wallow around in but I get
> the impression the documentary "spiffs it up" a bit, in other words, while
> reading a handful of episodes from each text might be fascinating, reading
> it in its entirety would likely turn one into a quivering, bored lump of
> flesh.  But then you never know which segments any individual would find of
> interest, the idea of "selections" of any work always turns me off a little
> bit.
>
> Who wants to volunteer transcribing it for release on the internet? ;)
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, grladams at teleport.com <
> grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
>
>>  It says he was moved into 3rd grade because he could read before school.
>> I
>> was moved from kindergarden into 2nd grade because my mom taught me to
>> read
>> with those Dick and Jane books when I was 3 years old. His drawings remind
>> me of those books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_and_Jane although
>> they
>> would have appeared long after he had learned to read. It makes me wonder
>> what basal readers he had gotten his hands on.
>>
>> 020    0847822842
>> 245 10 Henry Darger :|art and selected writings /|[edited by]
>>       Michael Bonesteel.
>> 260    New York :|Rizzoli,|c2000.
>>
>> 020    0810913984
>> 245 10 Darger :|the Henry Darger collection at the American Folk
>>       Art Museum /|Brooke Davis Anderson ; essay by Michel
>>       Thevoz ; translation by Catherine G. Sweeney.
>> 260    New York :|American Folk Art Museum/Harry N. Abrams,
>>       |c2001.
>>
>> 020    0929445155
>> 245 10 Henry Darger :|in the realms of the unreal /|John M.
>>       MacGregor.
>>
>> 020    0794205755
>> 245 00 In the realms of the unreal|[videorecording] :|the
>>       mystery of Henry Darger /|A Diorama Films production, An
>>       ITVS presentation ; producer, Susan West ; a film by
>>       Jessica Yu.
>>
>> 020    0374162700
>> 245 10 Girls on the run :|a poem /by John Ashbery.
>> 250    1st ed.
>> 260    New York :|Farrar, Straus and Giroux,|c1999.
>> 300    55 p. ;|24 cm.
>> 600 10 Darger, Henry,|1892-1972|Adaptations.
>>
>> Natalie Merchant did a song called Henry Darger on her 2001 Motherland EP
>> too.
>>
>>
>> Original Message:
>> -----------------
>> From: Otto ottosell at googlemail.com
>> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:21:50 +0100
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Henry Darger
>>
>>
>> haven't found the time to watch the whole docu yet:
>>
>> In the Realms of the Unreal (Henry Darger) Part 1
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PMBVxJnoPw
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