The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters (9780813022819)
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Author: Gary Monroe
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.
Publisher: University Press of Florida (11/20/2001)
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0813022819
ISBN-13: 9780813022819
Item Weight: 1.84lbs
Dimensions: 8.32h x 9.96w x 0.79d
Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 06/01/2002 pg. 72
Choice 03/01/2002 pg. 1227
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 63 - Recommended/Special Interest
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.
Publisher: University Press of Florida (11/20/2001)
Hardcover: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0813022819
ISBN-13: 9780813022819
Item Weight: 1.84lbs
Dimensions: 8.32h x 9.96w x 0.79d
Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 06/01/2002 pg. 72
Choice 03/01/2002 pg. 1227
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2002 pg. 63 - Recommended/Special Interest
About the Author
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.
