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The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters

The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters - Hardcover

by Gary Monroe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gary MonroePublish date:2001-11-20Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of FloridaISBN-13:9780813022819ISBN-10:813022819UPC:9780813022819Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:American, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Landscapes & SeascapesSize:8.32 x 9.96 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.8409Product ID:SC76BXVP1Z
This volume introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair of citrus grove packing houses. Their 1950s images of an idealized dreamlike Florida paradise form an astonishing body of work that they sold door-to-door and out of their car trunks. 63 illustrations.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of FloridaISBN-13:9780813022819ISBN-10:813022819UPC:9780813022819Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:American, History, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Landscapes & SeascapesSize:8.32 x 9.96 x 0.79 inchesWeight:1.8409Product ID:SC76BXVP1Z
Gary Monroe, professor of visual art at Daytona State College, is a documentary photographer with a long-time interest in "outsider" and vernacular art. His work has been recognized with numerous exhibitions and awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, and he has been a popular lecturer for the Florida Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau. His photographs have been published in Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community (UPF, 2000), which he coedited; Life in South Beach (1989); and Florida Dreams (1993). He lives in DeLand, Florida.
Publisher: University Press of Florida

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