{"product_id":"henry-darger-disasters-of-war-9783980426534","title":"Henry Darger: Disasters Of War","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Darger spent his life working as a janitor in Catholic hospitals  living alone in a rented room on Chicagos north side  attending Mass up to five times a day  and writing a picaresque tale in 15 massive volumes  composed of 145 handwritten pages and 5 084 single-spaced typed pages  and titled The Story of the Vivian Girls  in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal  of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm  Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. To accompany this enormous literary production  Darger also created several hundred large-scale illustrations--pencil on paper drawings painted over with watercolor and occasional additions of collage--that relate the story: on an unnamed planet  of which Earth is a moon  the good Christian nation of Anniennia wars with the Glandelinians  who practice child enslavement. The heroines are the seven Vivian sisters  Abbiennian princesses  who  after many battles  fires  tempests  and lurid torture  succeed in forcing the Glandelinians to give up their barbarous ways. The Disasters of War offers an affordable introduction to Dargers astonishing outsider oeuvre. It explains the technique  diligence and creativity of the works  illustrates details  and features a conversation between the Darger estate holder and the Kunstwerkes curator. A selection of 12 previously unpublished excerpts from The Realms of the Unreal and from Dargers diary explore the artists favorite topics: thunderstorms and atrocities. With a biography and exhibition history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67616049332277,"sku":"ByrdShop_398042653X","price":337.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783980426534.jpg?v=1791202178","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/henry-darger-disasters-of-war-9783980426534","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}