Showing at American Folk Art Museum in the The Midtown area.
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Media: Drawing, Photography, Sculpture
There is a long history of academically trained artists drawing inspiration from self-taught artists and thus freeing themselves to think in unexpected ways and on their own idiosyncratic terms, almost in defiance of what they were taught. "Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger" examines the influence of Darger's remarkable and cohesive oeuvre on eleven such artists, who are responding not only to the aesthetic beauty of Darger's mythic work-- with its tales of good versus evil, its epic scope and complexity, and even its transgressive undertone-- but to his unblinking work ethic and all-consuming devotion to artmaking. This exhibition demonstrates Darger's pervasive influence on the contemporary art discourse and how an examination of the work of self-taught artists is essential for a full understanding of art history.
[Image: Justine Kurland “Battlefield” (2001) Color photograph 30 x 40 in. Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.]
From 2008-04-15 To 2008-09-21
Adults $9, Students and Seniors $7, Children under 12, Members, Friday after 5.30pm Free
From 10:30 To 17:30
fridays closing at 19:30
Closed on Mondays
Between 5th and 6th Ave. Subway: E/V to 5th Avenue or B/D/F/V to 49th Street.
45 W 53rd St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 2129777170
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