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Greg Bottoms
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June 2015
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Greg Bottoms
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
June 2015
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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 into the worlds of such figures as William Thomas Thompson, a handicapped ex-millionaire who painted a 300-foot version of the book of Revelation, Norbert Kox, an ex-member of the Outlaws biker gang who now paints apocalyptic visual parables; and Myrtice West, who began painting to express the revelatory visions she had after her daughter's brutal murder.
Along the way, Bottoms weaves a powerful narrative, a work that is at once an enthralling travelogue, a series of revealing biographical portraits, and a profound meditation on the chaos of despair and the ways in which creativity can help order our lives.
Author
Greg Bottoms
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Published
June 2015
Weight
259g
Page Count
198
Dimensions
140 x 216 x 12 mm
ISBN
9780226066875
ISBN-10
0226066878
Eden Code
4322116
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Author/Creator: Greg Bottoms
ISBN: 9780226066875
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Release Date: June 2015
Weight: 259g
Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Eden Code: 4322116