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Henry Darger, the Glossary

Henry Joseph Darger Jr. (April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American writer, novelist and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois.^[1]

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20th-century American diarists
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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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All Saints Cemetery

All Saints Cemetery is a cemetery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, and is located at 700 North River Road, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

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American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street.

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Amy Cutler

Amy Cutler (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist.

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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

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Artists Rights Society

Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States.

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An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.

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Autopsy

An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles Dellschau

Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was a Prussian-American who gained posthumous fame after the discovery of his large scrapbooks that contained drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships. Henry Darger and Charles Dellschau are American outsider artists.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Daily News

The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, published between 1875 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Child slavery

Child slavery is the slavery of children.

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Christian culture

Christian culture generally includes all the cultural practices which have developed around the religion of Christianity.

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Collage

Collage (from the coller, "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

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Collection de l'art brut

The Collection de l'art brut (literally "Collection of Raw Art"; sometimes referred to as "Musée de l'art brut") is a museum dedicated to outsider art located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.

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Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California.

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Coppertone (sunscreen)

Coppertone is the brand name for an American sunscreen.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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DePaul University

DePaul University is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Des Plaines, Illinois

Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Edwardian era

In the United Kingdom, the Edwardian era was a period in the early 20th century, that spanned the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910.

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Elsie Paroubek

Eliška "Elsie" Paroubek (1906 – April 8, 1911) was an American girl who was a victim of kidnapping and murder in the spring of 1911.

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Exorcism

Exorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Found object

A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.

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Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker.

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, also known as the Intuit Art Center or just Intuit, is a museum in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago dedicated to outsider art.

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Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann), also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art.

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Jake and Dinos Chapman

Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, previously known as the Chapman Brothers.

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James Hampton (artist)

James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist. Henry Darger and James Hampton (artist) are American outsider artists, janitors and self-taught artists.

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Janitor

A janitor, also known as a custodian, porter, cleanser, cleaner or caretaker, is a person who cleans and maintains buildings. Henry Darger and janitor are janitors.

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John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic.

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La Maison Rouge

La Maison Rouge was a private contemporary art Foundation dedicated mainly to showing private art collections, monographic shows of contemporary artists' work.

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Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art

The Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM), formerly known as Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art, is an art museum in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.

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Lincoln Developmental Center

The Lincoln Developmental Center was a state school for people with developmental disabilities in Lincoln, Illinois.

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Lincoln Park, Chicago

Lincoln Park is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Lincoln, Illinois

Lincoln is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States.

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Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney is a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero.

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Little Sisters of the Poor

The Little Sisters of the Poor (Petites Sœurs des pauvres) is a Roman Catholic religious institute for women.

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Lockport, Illinois

Lockport is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Martyr

A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Meldorf

Meldorf (Holsatian: Meldörp or Möldörp) is a town in western Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, that straddles the river Miele in the district of Dithmarschen.

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Mercy Home for Boys and Girls

Mercy Home for Boys & Girls is an American privately funded childcare and residential home for abused, homeless and neglected children or children struggling with family issues, in Illinois.

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Milwaukee Art Museum

The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed.

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Museum Kunstpalast

The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Museum of Old and New Art

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla winery on the Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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Nathan Lerner

Nathan Lerner (1913 – February 8, 1997) was an American photographer and industrial designer involved in the New Bauhaus (later the IIT Institute of Design).

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New Orleans Museum of Art

The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Novena

A novena (from Latin: novem, "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks.

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.

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Outsider Art Fair

The Outsider Art Fair or OAF is an international exhibition that features outsider artists who work in a variety of mediums.

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Panorama

A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Postpartum infections

Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Robyn O'Neil

Robyn O'Neil (born 1977) is an American artist known for her large-scale graphite on paper drawings.

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Setagaya Art Museum

The is an art museum in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo.

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Sexual identity

Sexual identity refers to one's self-perception in terms of romantic or sexual attraction towards others, though not mutually exclusive, and can be different from romantic identity.

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Sketch (drawing)

A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios, "done extempore") is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman, is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.

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The Disasters of War

The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) is a series of 8280 prints in the first published edition (1863), for which the last two plates were not available.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Trenton Doyle Hancock

Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.

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Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Vivian Maier

Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. Henry Darger and Vivian Maier are American outsider artists.

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger

Also known as Blengigomenean, Darger, Darger, Henry, Harvey Darger, Henry Joseph Darger, In the Realms of the Unreal (book), The Story of the Vivian Girls.

, Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mixed media, Museum Kunstpalast, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Nathan Lerner, New Orleans Museum of Art, New York City, Novel, Novena, Outsider art, Outsider Art Fair, Panorama, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Postpartum infections, Rail freight transport, Robyn O'Neil, Setagaya Art Museum, Sexual identity, Sketch (drawing), Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Birth of a Nation, The Disasters of War, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Trenton Doyle Hancock, United States Army, United States Declaration of Independence, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Vivian Maier, Walker Art Center, Watercolor painting, World War I, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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20th-century American diarists

American speculative fiction artists

Fantastic art

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