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In The Realms Of The Unreal

2004, Movie, NR, 80 mins

In The Realms Of The Unreal: Review

Little is known about Henry Darger, the reclusive, so-called "outsider artist" who died in an impoverished obscurity unusual even by the standards of artists who achieve posthumous fame. Born in 1892, raised first as a ward of Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of Mercy boys' home, then the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, Darger, a devout (and possibly mentally ill) Catholic, spent his days attending Mass and working as a hospital janitor. His nights were spent in the ... read more leave a comment