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The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art

By Greg , Bottoms

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780226066851, 9780226066875, 0226066851, 0226066878, 9780226066882, 0226066886, 9781283159661, 128315966X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
684 kB (700700 bytes)
Pages
199 pages\199
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 20th century;ArtAmerican -- 21st century;Outsider art -- United StAmerican--20th century;ArtAmerican--21st century;Art brut;Arts;Outsider art;American;ArtArt

Description

The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finster's famous Paradise Gardens, his journey--of which The Colorful Apocalypse is a masterly chronicle--is an unparalleled look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madne.;Prologue; The First Notebook: Visions from Paradise; The Second Notebook: Revelation Theories; The Third Notebook: Picture-Perfect Jesus; Acknowledgments. Prologue The First Notebook: Visions from Paradise The Second Notebook: Revelation Theories The Third Notebook: Picture-Perfect Jesus Acknowledgments.

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