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Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another

Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World Paperback / softback - 2015

by Norman J. Girardot

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Paperback / softback. New. Finster began preaching as a teenager in the South in the 1930s. But it was not until he received a revelation from God at the age of sixty that he began to make sacred art. This book explores the life and religious-artistic significance of Finster and his work.
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  • Title Envisioning Howard Finster: The Religion and Art of a Stranger from Another World
  • Author Norman J. Girardot
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Oakland, CA
  • Date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780520261105
  • ISBN 9780520261105 / 0520261100
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Art Aspects
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Outsider art - United States, Art and religion - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014049376
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.2

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From the jacket flap

"Utilizing an original religious-studies perspective, Girardot opens up the scholarship on the visionary image maker who thrust the imagination into uncomfortable spiritual acrobatics and countercultural mythological intuition."--David Morgan, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University, and author of The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling

"Envisioning Howard Finster is a mythological tale rooted in serious and extensive scholarship that greatly enriches our knowledge of Finster and his context in late twentieth-century American culture."--Colin Rhodes, author of Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives

"Introducing astute comparisons between Finster and other artists, spiritual leaders, and historical figures, Girardot raises timely, provocative questions regarding Finster's place in the art world, Southern evangelical Protestantism, popular culture, and American history."--Tom Patterson, freelance writer, independent curator, author of Howard Finster: Stranger from Another World and St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 08/01/2015, Page 91

About the author

Norman Girardot is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of religion at Lehigh University.