Ebook: The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art

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.