{"id":31771,"date":"2025-07-23T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31771\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:00:10","slug":"five-essential-books-about-self-taught-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31771\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Essential Books About Self-Taught Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<br \/>Published in 2012, this revelatory monograph offers a redemptive, compassionate portrait of Henry Darger, an obsessive creator as often pathologized as he is mythologized. Drawing on queer studies and literary archives, cultural historian Michael Moon situates Darger\u2019s visionary tales starring the Vivian Girls\u2014whose pastoral idylls are constantly interrupted by horrific sexual predation\u2014in relation to the efflorescence of working-class print culture in the interwar years. As Moon brilliantly shows, Darger\u2019s fictional narratives, conceived as allegories of slavery, were vested in children\u2019s books, biblical tracts, comics, pulp fiction, and American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published in 2012, this revelatory monograph offers a redemptive, compassionate portrait of Henry Darger, an obsessive creator as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,26613],"class_list":{"0":"post-31771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-syllabus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}