Delve Deeper into "In the Realms of the Unreal" A film by Jessica Yu

This multi-media resource list, contemporary culture and the Princeton, NJ: Princeton compiled by Mary Cella of the St meaning of art. University Press, 1989. Charles Public Library in MacGregor utilizes his training in art partnership with the American Darger, Henry et al. Henry history, psychiatry, and Library Association, provides a Darger: Disasters of War. New psychoanalysis to describe the range of perspectives on the York: KW Institute for evolution of society’s attitudes issues raised by the upcoming Contemporary Art, 2004. towards art by the mentally ill and P.O.V. documentary “In the Explains the technique a nd their art’s influence on modern art. Realms of the Unreal” that creativity behind Darger’s works premieres on August 2, 2005 at and draws readers’ attention to McGregor, John. Henry Darger: 10 p.m. on PBS (check local detail. Also features a selection of In the Realms of the Unreal. listings at www.pbs.org/pov/). 12 previously unpublished excerpts New York: Delano Greenidge, from In The Realms of the Unreal 2002. A generously illustrated book Reclusive janitor by day, visionary and from Darger's diary. that is the culmination of over a artist by night, outsider artist Henry decade of research by outsider art Darger moved through life virtually Fine, Gary. Everyday Genius: expert John MacGregor who unnoticed. But after his death, a Self-Taught and the Culture of explores the life and work of Henry treasure trove was discovered in his Authenticity. Chicago, IL: Darger. one-room Chicago apartment: a University of Chicago Press, staggering 15,000-page novel and 2004. Comprehensive examination Maizels, John. Raw Creation: hundreds of illustrations that of outsider art and the network of Outsider Art and Beyond. continue to inspire artists around self-taught artists, who despite their London: Phaidon Press, 2000. the world. With dreamlike unique talents, still participate in Maizels, editor of Raw Vision, the animation, poignant narration by the traditional world of money and international magazine on outsider Dakota Fanning and a haunting status. Fine explores the differences and self-taught art, details the musical score, Academy Award between folk art, outsider art, and history of outsider art and its winner Jessica Yu fashions a bold self-taught art, explaining the continued evolution towards and beautiful film. "In the Realms of economics of the self-taught art recognition. The book also discusses the Unreal" immerses us in Darger's market. the theories and definitions that startling universe of innocence and have been created around the pain, showing how he forged magic Hall, Michael. The Outsider works of visionaries, the insane, out of the bleakest of lives. A co- Artist: Creativity and the and other extraordinary artists. presentation with the Independent Boundaries of Culture. Television Service (ITVS). Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Oakes, John G.H. In the Realms Books, 1994. Conta ins 19 of the Unreal: “Insane” ______scholarly essays that critically Writings. New York: Four Walls ADULT NONFICTION explore various topics including Eight Windows, 1991. An appreciation of difficult art and art international compilation of over Anderson, Brook Davis & as a tool for the treatment of 300 works of poetry and prose Michael Thevoz. The Henry mental illness. written by individuals who are Darger Collection at the labeled mentally unstable by American Folk Art Museum. New Hand, Elizabeth. Inside Out: On society. Most of the contributors to York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. A Henry Darger. In Ellen Datlow & the volume have never been basic introduction to Henry Darger Terri Windling’s (Eds.), The published and most are and his work, it includes 114 color Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror institutionalized. re-prints of his drawings. (pp.447-453). New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002. This Rexer, Lyle. How To Look at Bonesteel, Michael. Henry anthology provides an extensive Outsider Art. New York: Harry Darger: Art and Selected selection of fantasy and horror N. Abrams, 2005. Provides the Writings. New York: Rizzoli, stories that include poetry and ground rules for understanding, 2000. Looks at the world of essays. appreciating, and evaluating outsider artist, Henry Darger. outsider works of art. Includes Includes excerpts from his diary Hollander, Stacy C. & Brooke works that have never been and his 15,000-page novel In the Davis Anderson. American published, including those by Henry Realms of the Unreal. Anthem: Masterworks from the Darger. American Folk Art Museum. New Cardinal, Roger. Outsider Art. York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Rhodes, Colin. Outsider Art: New York: Praeger Publications, Celebrates American folk art from Spontaneous Alternatives 1973. Combines case studies of the colonial days through the (World of Art). New York: people who produced artwork while present in a full volume text that Thames & Hudson, 2000. in psychiatric facilities. draws upon works from the Colin Rhodes surveys the history collection of the American Folk Art and reception of Outsider Art, which D’Agata, John. Halls of Fame: Museum. is now appreciated by a wide public. Essays. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2001. John McGregor, John. The Discovery D’Agata explores American of the Art of the Insane.

Delve Deeper into "In the Realms of the Unreal" A film by Jessica Yu

______ADULT FICTION Hand, Elizabeth. Mortal Love. FICTION FOR YOUNGER New York: William Morrow, READERS Ashbery, John. Girls on the Run: 2004. Explores themes of artistic a Poem. New York: Farrar inspiration and its dangerous Anholt, Laurence. Camille and Strauss Giroux, 1999. A single development into obsession and the Sunflowers: A Story About poem, 96 pages long, inspired by madness through three interwoven Vincent Van Gogh. Hauppauge, the work of Henry Darger. narratives set in late Victorian NY: Barron’s, 1994. Told through England. the lens of a young boy, this is a Braverman, Kate. The great intro duction to the works of Incantation of Frida K. New Maugham, Somerset W. The Vincent Van Gogh with artistic York: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Moon and Sixpence. New York: reproductions. Ages 4-8. Braverman enters the mind of artist Penguin Books, 1944. Follows a Frida Kahlo as she lies on her man, Charles Strikland, who Bucholz, Quint. The Collector of deathbed at age 46. The novel abandons his wife and children to Moments, translated by Peter F. reflects on people, places, and devote himself to painting, yet Neumeyer. New York: Farrar, events from Kahlo’s life, as well as refuses to exhibit or sell his work. Straus & Giroux, 1999. A solitary discusses topics of art and Tortured by illness and his own boy is drawn to his mysterious new philosophy. passion for art he travels around neighbor, an artist named Max. Max the world and ends up in Tahiti, does not let anyone see his Chabon, Michael. The Amazing where blinded by leprosy he paintings until he embarks on a Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: produces his most astonishing journey, leaving behind his A Novel. New York: Picador, artwork. paintings, which are beautiful but USA, 2001. Joe Kavalier, a young also strange and unpredictable. Jewish artist escapes Nazi occupied Stone, Irving. Lust for Life. New Readers join the boy in this picture Prague to come to America and York: Penguin Group, 1984. book as the power of art makes the begins creating comic books with A fictionalized biography of the ordinary become the magical and his cousin, Sammy Clay in Dutch painter, Vincent Van Gogh, unreal. Ages 9-12. Brooklyn. Explores topics of art, based on three volumes of letters creation, and comic books. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Dionetti, Michelle. Painting the Theo. Wind. Boston: Little, Brown and Chessman, Harriet Scott. Lydia Company, 1996. Told through the Cassatt Reading the Morning Urquhart, Jane. The eyes of a little girl in Arle, France Paper: A Novel. New York: Underpainter. New York: Viking, who admires Van Gogh’s work, the Permanent Press and Seven 1997. In Rochester, New York a book opens up children’s eyes to Stories Press, 2001. This novel seventy-five year old painter, Austin the shock of the unconventional. imagines the life and times of Fraser, paints a collection that Ages 6-10. impressionist painter Mary Cassatt chronicles individuals who have and her sister, Lydia. Told in the affected him, taking readers over Engel, Diana. Holding On. New voice of Lydia who is dying at age seven decades and around the York: Cavendish Children’s 41, the novel captures nineteenth world as Fraser recalls his life. Books, 1997. Tells the story of a century Paris and real life figures. young boy who discovers art as a Also includes five full color plates of ______powerful channel for release as he Cassatt’s paintings. NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER copes with his parent’s divorce READERS through painting. Ages 9-12. Cooperstein, Claire. Johanna: A Novel of the Van Gogh Family. Horwitz, Elinor Lander. Garland, Michael. Dinner at New York: Scribner, 1995. Contemporary American Folk Magritte’s. New York: Dutton Follows the story of Johanna, the Artists. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Children’s Books, 1995. Follows a daughter of Vincent Van Gogh’s 1975. Outlines the lives and works young boy who discovers the world brother, Theo, who devotes her life of twenty-two American folk of surrealistic art one summer when to preserving Van Gogh’s memory. painters, carvers, and he is on vacation with his parents in environmentalists. France. Complete with illustrations. Dee, Jonathan. Palladio: A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Kinney, Jean Brown & Cle Guarnieri, Paolo. A Boy Named 2002. Detailing the story of a Kinney. 23 Varieties of Ethnic Giotto, translated by Jonathan couple torn apart, Dee probes Art and How to Make Each One. Galassi. New York: Farrar Straus themes of lost love and the sources New York: Atheneum, 1976. & Giroux, 1999. The book follows behind artwork. Explains the contributions that the evolution of Giotto, an eight- different ethnic groups have made year old shepherd boy who has a Enright, Rosemary. Isobel. New to American culture, as well as great talent for drawing but whose York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. instructions for making folk art. talents go unnoticed until he meets Follows an au pair who struggles to Cimabue, a painter who teaches free herself from her past through Giotto the wonders of painting. art, almost reaching madness in the Ages 4-8. process.

Delve Deeper into "In the Realms of the Unreal" A film by Jessica Yu

Littlesugar, Amy. Jonkonnu: A Britannica Educational reveal how other cultures have Story from the Sketchbook of Corporation. 1971. (10 min.) shaped their transformations and Winslow Homer. New York: This video follows a young boy on visions as artists. Philomel Books, 1997. The his adventure to a place where www.newday.com/films/Through_a authors have fabricated the story things have been discarded. While _Glass__Lightly.html behind a painting done by Winslow there he sees many strange Homer about ten years after the creatures that have been created Civil War. Ages 4-8. out of the trash, and so sets out to NEWSPAPER ARTICLES create his own creature. Lowry, Lois. Gathering Blue. Artner, Alan G. “Henry Darger’s New York: Laurel-Leaf, 2002. “Art from Found Materials.” BFA Outsider Art Is Ill-Served by Depicts an anti-utopian future Educational Media. 1971. (12 Uncritical Exhibit.” The Chicago society in which Kira is a girl who min.) Narrated instruction on how Tribune, p. 60. (April 10, 1998). has lost both of her parents. to make art from trash. Struggling to survive, her Beer, John. “Poetic Collage.” The extraordinary talents with a needle “Rare Visions & Roadside Chicago Tribune, p. 3. (August 1, and thread keep her alive and allow Revelations.” Randy Mason & 1999). her to get close enough to the inner Michael Murphy. KCPT. 1995. workings of her society to see its (60 min.) “Rare Visions & Christensen, Richard. “Entering secret horror. Roadside Revelations” is a television Darger’s Dreams: Recluse’s Life and show that seeks out the world of Fantasies Mingle on Stage in ‘Jennie McPhail, David. Something the Visionary arts in a road show Richie.’” The Chicago Tribune, p. 6. Special. Boston: Joy Street, format, bringing the artists and the (February 4, 2001). 1988. Sam is the only one in his artwork to the viewers of Public family who does not have an Television Eskin, Leah. “Henry Darger.” The extraordinary talent, until he www.kcpt.org/rare_visions Chicago Tribune, p. 10. (December discovers his amazing painting 17, 2000). abilities. Told with expressive “Recycled, Re-Seen Folk Art illustrations, ages 4-8. from the Global Scrap Heap.” ______International Museum of Folk WEB SITES Place, Francois. The Old Man Art (N.M.). Crystal Productions. Mad About Drawing: A Tale of 1997. (35 min.) This innovative www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/int Hokusai; translated by William and dynamic program includes a herealms/index.html Rodarmor. Boston: David R. video, an Interdisciplinary P.O.V.’s website for “In the Realms Godine, 2004. Takes place in Curriculum Guide, and 20 color of the Unreal” nineteenth-century Edo, nine-year- prints. The 35-minute video follows old Tojiro befriends artist Hokusai artists working with recycled www.realmsoftheunreal.com/ and becomes his assistant. materials in five countries and Filmmaker Jessica Yu’s website Detailed ink and watercolor provides innovative ideas for illustrations are on every page. creating recycled art. Students www.acer- Ages 9-12. learn that creativity with recycled access.com/~darger@acer- materials spans global cultures. access.com/index.htm Seidler, Tor. Brothers Below http://crystalproductions.com/catal Realm of the Unreal: a page about Zero. New York: Laura Geringer og/product_info.php/cPath/36/prod Henry Darger Books; HarperCollins, 2002. A ucts_id/4934 tale of sibling rivalry, seventh www.avam.org grader Tim Tuttle is constantly “Rivers and Tides: Andy American Visionary Museum in overshadowed by his older brother, Goldsworthy Working with Baltimore, MD until he moves in with his Great- Time.” Thomas Riedelsheimer. aunt Winifred who is an artist and New Video. 2004. (90 min.) www.folkartmuseum.org inspires him to paint portraits of his Scottish-German documentary American Folk Art Museum in New family. Ages 8 to 12. about artist Goldsworthy, a York City Scotsman whose medium is nature Winter, Jeanette. Josefina. San and whose studio is the outdoors. www.hammergallery.com/Artist Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996. s/darger/Darger.htm Winter imagines a day in the life of “Through a Glass, Lightly.” The Carl Hammer Gallery in Josefina Aguilar, an actual Mexican David Philpot & Kevin Orth. New Chicago’s site on Darger. Includes folk artist who makes and sells Day Films. 1994. (21 min.) works of the artist as well as those painted clay figures in her small This program about "outsider art" that are available for sale. village. Ages 4 to 8. profiles three, self-taught Chicagoans who search for www.saraayers.com/darger.ht discarded or abandoned objects. m VIDEOS AND DOCUMENTARIES The film follows Mr. Imagination, Site discusses the life of Henry David Philpot, and Kevin Orth as Darger with examples of his art and “A Boy Creates.” Encyclopedia they search Chicago’s streets and links to information about the artist alleys for raw materials. The artists and Outsider Art.