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The
End is Near!
Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and
Utopia
by
Roger Manley
10"
x 10", 196 Pages
Winner
of the 1998 Benjamin Franklin National Book Award for
Best First Book
Essays
by:
The
Dalai Lama
Howard Finster
Stephen Jay Gould
Rebecca
Hofberger
John
the Divine
Roger Manley
Adam Parfrey
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First
gathered in a critically-acclaimed exhibition at the American
Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, The End is Near!
offers the largest collection of visionary art ever assembled
on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia. Many
works included here were shown for the first time in this
exhibit and have never appeared in print. Alongside these
powerful, challenging, and at times obsessively elaborate
works of art, The End is Near! presents some
of the most provocative and innovative minds of our time probing
the mysteries of the year 2000, the coming age, and the end
of the world. Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould,
Georgia's famous visionary evangelist Reverend Howard Finster,
Apocalypse culture expert Adam Parfrey, and Nobel Prize
recipient His Holiness the Dalai Lama join curator
Roger Manley and dozens of gifted, world-renowned visionary
artists in the quest for ultimate knowledge.
The End is Near! reveals a strong spiritual
kinship between these brilliant minds of today and major luminaries
of the past like Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake and Emmanuel
Swedenborg. It hints at shared understandings between self-taught
contemporary visionaries and such ancient prophetic traditions
found in Classical Greece, Aboriginal Australia and the seers
of the Holy Scriptures. Included in The End is Near!
is the entire Revelation of St. John the Divine, perhaps the
most influential and widely referenced -yet rarely read- work
on the ultimate fate of humanity and the universe.
The
End is Near! should become compulsory reading for
anyone intrigued by the mysteries, depths, and triumphs of
the human spirit.
"Without
question, the slickest, classiest, heaviest, headiest 1998
outsider art publication. One might be tempted to call it
the contemporary zeitgeist of outsider art."
- Michael Bonesteel, The
Outsider
"The
obsessiveness, the intensity and yes, sometimes the just plain
madness that characterizes what's called Outsider Art also
account for its extraordinary vitality and the direct impact
of these images on the viewer. The End is Near should
put to rest any questions of whether "outsider"
art should be studied, collected, or shown in museums at all.
- John Strausbaugh, New
York Press
The
End is Near features the work of the following visionary artists.
Browse the artist profiles to see some of the work that appears
in the book:
William
Adkins |
Z.B. Armstrong |
Bill Bruley |
Frank
Bruno |
Harry
Leroy Brunson |
Tom
Carapic |
Pierre
Carbonel |
Joe
Coleman |
John
Day |
Anthony
Dominguez |
Yanko
Domsic |
Edmond
Engel |
Paul
Esparza |
Howard
Finster |
Tim
Fowler |
Mary
Mac Franklin |
Victor
Joseph Gatto |
Robert
Gie |
Patrick
Gimel |
Hugo
Hempel |
Arnold
Hendrickson |
Oskar
Herzberg |
Henry
Hill |
Chris
Hipkiss
| Vojislav Jakic
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Norbert
Kox |
Albert
Krehlik |
Paul
Laffoley |
Charles
Keeling Lassiter |
Frederick
William Lawrence |
Stuart
Little |
McKendree
Robbins Long |
Moog
(Peter Meyer) |
Neter
(August Natterer) |
Ellis
Nelson |
Kendall
Polster |
Stephen
Powers |
Irwin
Rabinov |
Royal
Robertson |
Xavier
Schelkle |
Hans
Schoenleber |
Christine
Sefolosha |
Paul
Shimmack |
Bob
Smythe |
John
Sowell |
L.C.
Spooner |
Vonn
Stropp |
Stanislav
Szukalski |
William
Thomas Thompson |
Philip
Travers |
Eugene
Von Bruenchenhein |
Grant
Wallace |
Melvin
Milky Way |
Perley
M. Wentworth |
Sanford
A. Winslow |
Tony
Wise |
Anthony
Yoder |
David
Zeldis |
Konrad
Zeuner
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