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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Colorful Apocalypse - Journeys in Outsider Art
• Author: Greg Bottoms
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9780226066875
• ISBN: 0226066878
• ID: 09231789
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 217 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2015

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