Word: darger
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...weirdest talent in the show, because it is the most epic, obsessive and totally self-referential in its mixture of sadistic violence and kitsch daintiness, belongs to the Chicago recluse Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist...