The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters

This volume introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair...
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Author: Gary Monroe
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Language: English
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The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters by Monroe, Gary

The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters

$413.13

The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters

$413.13
Author: Gary Monroe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Gary Monroe
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 11/20/2001
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 8.32h x 9.96w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780813022819


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.

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