{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4616"},"altNumsArchivespace":{"label":"ArchiveSpace","value":"2025.3A,B"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Ralph Esmerian in memory of Robert Bishop© Kiyoko Lerner"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1970"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2000    25    3B"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2000.25.3B"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Watercolor, pencil, and carbon tracing on pieced paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Chicago"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2826/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2826"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"At Phelantonburg. They raid a guardhouse / At Calmanrina Escape Through City Tunnel./ Last at Phelantonberg. They Witness a Massacre of Children. (double-sided)"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Chicago"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["PAINTING","Plate 6A,B in book","watercolor","The French writer Georges Bataille wrote that images have the power not to comfort us but, on the contrary, to trouble and worry us, to \u201copen us up\u201d and make us \u201cbleed inside.\u201d The fertile and loaded images of Henry Darger operate in this register: they take us aback. Hybridity, as an essential rhythm in his compositions, contributes to this effect. Creatures are half-human half-animal, children are half-girl half-boy, adults are sometimes sadistic and at other times saviors. Even nature and the weather take on both threatening and protective qualities (giant flowers, anthropomorphic clouds, etc.). A work of art, unlike reality, possesses an autonomy that can accommodate contradictory scenarios legitimized by the artist\u2019s vision. It offers him total liberty to re-create a new world, rather than being confined to the conventions of ordinary life. The approach taken by Darger can generate an ambiguous reading, where the real conjoins the fantastical, where good is the ally of evil. \"At Phelantonburg. They raid a guardhouse / At Calmanrina Escape Through City Tunnel./ Last at Phelantonberg. They Witness a Massacre of Children.\", exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Chicago"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"155167"},"geographyState":{"value":"Illinois"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"492","content":"Henry Darger"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["PAINTING","Plate 6A,B in book","watercolor","The French writer Georges Bataille wrote that images have the power not to comfort us but, on the contrary, to trouble and worry us, to \u201copen us up\u201d and make us \u201cbleed inside.\u201d The fertile and loaded images of Henry Darger operate in this register: they take us aback. Hybridity, as an essential rhythm in his compositions, contributes to this effect. Creatures are half-human half-animal, children are half-girl half-boy, adults are sometimes sadistic and at other times saviors. Even nature and the weather take on both threatening and protective qualities (giant flowers, anthropomorphic clouds, etc.). A work of art, unlike reality, possesses an autonomy that can accommodate contradictory scenarios legitimized by the artist\u2019s vision. It offers him total liberty to re-create a new world, rather than being confined to the conventions of ordinary life. The approach taken by Darger can generate an ambiguous reading, where the real conjoins the fantastical, where good is the ally of evil. \"At Phelantonburg. They raid a guardhouse / At Calmanrina Escape Through City Tunnel./ Last at Phelantonberg. They Witness a Massacre of Children.\", exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1930"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"Mid-20th century"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - Thursday, February 8, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-02-08","exhibitionID":"214","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2017-09-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"2017","exhibitionTitle":"Highlights from Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"}},"altNums":{"label":"Alternative Numbers","value":"2025.3A,B"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"19 × 70 1/4\""}}]}