{"id":6106,"date":"2012-11-16T02:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2012-11-16T02:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:16:50","slug":"dargers-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/11\/16\/dargers-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Darger&#8217;s Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by Michael Moon, <em>Darger&#8217;s Resources<\/em> (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, through an examination of his actual and likely sources.  One chapter that may interest Lovecraftian scholars is called &#8220;Wierd Flesh, World&#8217;s Flesh: Darger and the pulps&#8221;. Google Books is only letting me have a selection of pages but there appears to be no actual suggestion of direct influence, from Darger having read Lovecraft.  But Moon notes that Darger&#8217;s work on <em>The Realms<\/em> was contemporaneous (1908\/11-1938) with Lovecraft&#8217;s working years and &#8216;the pulp years&#8217;, and Moon draws parallels between the two men&#8217;s approaches to evoking horrors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by Michael Moon, Darger&#8217;s Resources (Duke University Press, 2012), historically contextualises the American outsider artist Henry Darger, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/11\/16\/dargers-resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}