Coming Home!: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South

By: Kogan, Mary C.

Book Overview

In the works of many famous self-taught artists, such as Howard Finster and Sister Gertrude Morgan, Biblical themes and imagery abound. How has the Bible inspired these southern creators?

Examining 125 works of art by seventy contemporary folk artists, Coming Home Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. The exhibition features painters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578066581
• ISBN13: 9781578066582
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 2.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 11.3"