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On
Monday October 22, 2001, Finster returned home to another
world, and we mortals lost one of the most prominent and prolific
self-taught artists of the 20th Century: Reverend Howard
Finster of Summerville, GA. A preacher from Alabama with
a sixth grade education, Finster’s Paradise Gardens environment
and "sermons in paint" forever changed the art world.
Working outside the aesthetics of formal art training, Finster
said,"When Christ called his disciples, he called fishermen;
he didn’t call nobody from a university."
Dilettante
Press has gathered a collection of tributes to the man who
inspired so many others to believe in their own creative visions.
Contributors
include Jonathan Williams, Rebecca Hoffberger,
Jenifer Borum, Stephanie Chernikowski, and Finster
himself.
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