Nearly twenty-five years ago, the Reverend Howard Finster began to build his fantastic version of the Garden of Eden in a swampy plot of land northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. His Paradise Garden is a wild, lush landscape of flowers, berries, fruit trees, and animals - intermingled with Finster's extraordinary, outrageous art. To create the garden, he fixed whimsical objects in every nook and cranny, and suspended his colorful paintings from each available surface, from trees to fences to walls, incorporating such found objects as bottlecaps, glass, discarded tools, rusted machine parts, and even old cars and bicycles in a brilliant collage of texture, light, and color. Sometimes considered "Outsider Art, " the 80-year-old Finster's work invites viewers to read, touch, and viscerally experience his artful and spiritual message. Today, this remarkable creation, beloved by tourists and art lovers alike, is threatened by vandals and those who would see it disassembled - but Paradise Garden will continue to flourish in this remarkable and evocative volume.
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Paradise in a different sense,
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Fans of the odd and eccentric will find Howard Finster's Paradise Garden fascinating and entertaining. The quality and selection of photographs of the garden is fantastic, and Finster's statments regarding the vision behind his creation are intriguing. This book is definitely worth examining for its unusual scope and content.
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FASCINATING!,
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beautiful, compelling...a great study of one of the most interesting rebel artists of our time. everyone should know who howard finster is!
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Entry to the garden is on its south side, off a rambling rural road. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bicycle tower, cement molding, paradise garden, pump house Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Howard Finster, New York New!
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Entry to the garden is on its south side, off a rambling rural road. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bicycle tower, cement molding, paradise garden, pump house Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Howard Finster, New York New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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