Description
This book is the first to examine Henry Darger's conceptual and visual representation of "girls" and girlhood.
Specifically, Leisa Rundquist charts the artist's use of little girl imagery--his direct appropriations from mainstream sources as well as girls modified to meet his needs--in contexts that many scholars have read as puerile and psychologically disturbed. Consequently, this inquiry qualifies the intersexed aspects of Darger's protagonists as well as addresses their inherent cute and little associations that signal multivocal meanings often in conflict with each other. Rundquist engages Darger's art through thematic analyses of the artist's writings, mature works, collages, and ephemeral materials.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art and gender studies, sociology, and contemporary art.
Author: Leisa Rundquist
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/09/2023
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d
ISBN13: 9780367748135
ISBN10: 0367748134
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Folk & Outsider Art
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
About the Author
Leisa Rundquist is a Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA.
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