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THECOLORFULAPOCALYPSE THE COLORFUL APOCALYPSE journeys in outsider art GREG BOTTOMS the university of chicago press ChicagoandLondon greg bottoms’s essays,criticism,andfiction haveappearedwidely.Heistheauthorof Sentimental,HeartbrokenRednecks:Storiesfromthe NewSouth,andthememoirAngelhead:MyBrother’s DescentintoMadness,whichisalsoavailablefrom theUniversityofChicagoPress. TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637 TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,London (cid:2)C 2007byGregBottoms Allrightsreserved.Published2007 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 1 2 3 4 5 isbn-13:978-0-226-06685-1(cloth) isbn-13:978-0-226-06687-5(paper) isbn-10:0-226-06685-1(cloth) isbn-10:0-226-06687-8(paper) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Bottoms,Greg. Thecolorfulapocalypse:journeysinoutsiderart/ GregBottoms. p. cm. isbn-13:978-0-226-06685-1(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-226-06685-1(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-13:978-0-226-06687-5(pbk.:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-226-06687-8(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Art,American—20thcentury. 2.Outsider art—UnitedStates. 3.Spiritualityinart. I.Title. n6512.7.b68 2007 709.73—dc22 2006036203 (cid:2)∞ Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetsthe minimumrequirementsoftheAmericanNational StandardforInformationSciences—Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI Z39.48-1992. Theviewofmanasasymbolizing,conceptualizing,meaning- seekinganimal,whichhasbecomeincreasinglypopularbothin thesocialsciencesandinphilosophyoverthepastseveralyears, opensupawholenewapproachnotonlytotheanalysisofreli- gionassuch,buttotheunderstandingoftherelationsbetween religionandvalues.Thedrivetomakesenseoutofexperience, togiveitformandorder,isevidentlyasrealandaspressingas themorefamiliarbiologicalneeds.And,thisbeingso,itseems unnecessarytocontinuetointerpretsymbolicactivities—re- ligion,art,ideology—asnothingbutthinlydisguisedexpres- sionsofsomethingotherthanwhattheyseemtobe:attempts toprovideorientationforanorganismwhichcannotliveina worlditisunabletounderstand. cliffordgeertz I’mhopingpeoplewillgivemesomeaccess—talkwithmeand helpmefigureoutwhat’sgoingonaroundhere. william carloswilliamsinconversationwith RobertColes CONTENTS prologue xi the first notebook VisionsfromParadise 1 the second notebook RevelationTheories 57 the third notebook Picture-PerfectJesus 123 acknowledgments 181

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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
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THECOLORFULAPOCALYPSE THE COLORFUL APOCALYPSE journeys in outsider art GREG BOTTOMS the university of chicago press ChicagoandLondon greg bottoms’s essays,criticism,andfiction haveappearedwidely.Heistheauthorof Sentimental,HeartbrokenRednecks:Storiesfromthe NewSouth,andthememoirAngelhead:MyBrother’s DescentintoMadness,whichisalsoavailablefrom theUniversityofChicagoPress. TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637 TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,London (cid:2)C 2007byGregBottoms Allrightsreserved.Published2007 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 1 2 3 4 5 isbn-13:978-0-226-06685-1(cloth) isbn-13:978-0-226-06687-5(paper) isbn-10:0-226-06685-1(cloth) isbn-10:0-226-06687-8(paper) LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Bottoms,Greg. Thecolorfulapocalypse:journeysinoutsiderart/ GregBottoms. p. cm. isbn-13:978-0-226-06685-1(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-226-06685-1(cloth:alk.paper) isbn-13:978-0-226-06687-5(pbk.:alk.paper) isbn-10:0-226-06687-8(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Art,American—20thcentury. 2.Outsider art—UnitedStates. 3.Spiritualityinart. I.Title. n6512.7.b68 2007 709.73—dc22 2006036203 (cid:2)∞ Thepaperusedinthispublicationmeetsthe minimumrequirementsoftheAmericanNational StandardforInformationSciences—Permanence ofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI Z39.48-1992. Theviewofmanasasymbolizing,conceptualizing,meaning- seekinganimal,whichhasbecomeincreasinglypopularbothin thesocialsciencesandinphilosophyoverthepastseveralyears, opensupawholenewapproachnotonlytotheanalysisofreli- gionassuch,buttotheunderstandingoftherelationsbetween religionandvalues.Thedrivetomakesenseoutofexperience, togiveitformandorder,isevidentlyasrealandaspressingas themorefamiliarbiologicalneeds.And,thisbeingso,itseems unnecessarytocontinuetointerpretsymbolicactivities—re- ligion,art,ideology—asnothingbutthinlydisguisedexpres- sionsofsomethingotherthanwhattheyseemtobe:attempts toprovideorientationforanorganismwhichcannotliveina worlditisunabletounderstand. cliffordgeertz I’mhopingpeoplewillgivemesomeaccess—talkwithmeand helpmefigureoutwhat’sgoingonaroundhere. william carloswilliamsinconversationwith RobertColes CONTENTS prologue xi the first notebook VisionsfromParadise 1 the second notebook RevelationTheories 57 the third notebook Picture-PerfectJesus 123 acknowledgments 181

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