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The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
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Description for The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
Paperback. Looking at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy, this book includes biographical portraits, and a profound meditation on the chaos of despair and the ways in which creativity can help order our lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGR; HRCS; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 259.
The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so be appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would 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 at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy. Bottoms draws us ... Read more
The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so be appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would 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 at the lives and works of some of Finster's contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and neuvres occupy the gray area between madness and Christian ecstasy. Bottoms draws us ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226066875
SKU
V9780226066875
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About Paperback
Greg Bottoms is professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of six other works of fiction and nonfiction, including Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
"Bottoms is impassioned, curious, relentless, and angry, but never cynical, least of all about the power of creative expression to salve one's longings." (Los Angeles Times)