Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art

Name: Colorful Apocalypse Journeys in Outsider Art
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ISBN: 9780226066851

ISBN-10: 0226066851

ISBN-13: 9780226066851

Edition: 2007

Authors: Greg Bottoms

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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 madness and Christian ecstasy. With his prodigious gift for conversation and quietly observant…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.88" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Greg Bottoms' writing has been published in "Salon," "Feed," "Nerve," & "The Beacon Best of 1999." He lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.



The first notebook : visions from paradise


The second notetbook : revelation theories


The third notebook : picture-perfect Jesus