American Odd: Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings, by Michael Bonesteel

A look at peculiar institutions, oddball literary experiments, and reckless rugged individualists. A celebration of American non-conformity. Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings By Michael Bonesteel Rizzoli (2001) Review by Karl Wolff American Odd returns to Chicago for another visionary individual who penned a massive work with an oddball cosmology. In this case it is the reclusive artist and writer Henry Darger (1892 - 1973). Several books have been written about Darger, but I chose Mic...