Comments on: Outsider Art – a look at Henry Darger http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/07/08/outsider-art-a-look-at-henry-darger/ Discussions and ideas about art and textile art Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Apophenia http://raggedclothcafe.com/2007/07/08/outsider-art-a-look-at-henry-darger/#comment-3019 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:25:57 +0000 http://junomain.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/outsider-art-a-look-at-henry-darger/#comment-3019 That’s art. Not all of it is fluffy bunnies and pretty flowers.

I’m certainly glad some of it is, but something to consider: if this was pornography, it would have been spread around and sold. This was a man’s private fantasy world. Perhaps Darger recognized that society would find the child element too disturbing and this was why he kept it to himself.

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