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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN-100813022819
ISBN-139780813022819
eBay Product ID (ePID)1896437
Product Key Features
Book TitleHighwaymen : Florida's African-American Landscape Painters
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicArt, American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Social Science, Antiques & Collectibles
AuthorGary Monroe
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight29.8 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width9.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-034077
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal758/.1759/08996073
Synopsis"For the first time, the real story behind the Highwaymen has emerged . . . a well-researched, lively, and comprehensive overview of the development and contribution of these African-American artists and their place in the history of Florida's popular culture."--Mallory McCane O'Connor, author of Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast The Highwaymen introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in citrus groves and packing houses of 1950s Florida. As their story recaptures the imagination of Floridians and their paintings fetch ever-escalating prices, the legacy of their freshly conceived landscapes exerts a new and powerful influence on the popular conception of the Sunshine State. While the value of Highwaymen paintings has soared in recent years, until now no authoritative account of the lives and work of these black Florida artists has existed. Emerging in the late 1950s, the Highwaymen created idyllic, quickly realized images of the Florida dream and peddled, by some estimates, 200,000 of them from the trunks of their cars. Working with inexpensive materials, the Highwaymen produced an astonishing number of landscapes that depict a romanticized Florida--a faraway place of wind-swept palm trees, billowing cumulus clouds, wetlands, lakes, rivers, ocean, and setting sun. With paintings still wet, they loaded their cars and traveled the state's east coast, selling the images door-to-door and store-to-store, in restaurants, offices, courthouses, and bank lobbies. Sometimes characterized as motel art, the work is a hybrid form of landscape painting, corrupting the classically influenced ideals of the Highwaymen's white mentor, A. E. "Bean" Backus. At first, the paintings sold like boom-time real estate. In succeeding decades, however, they were consigned to attics and garage sales. Rediscovered in the mid-1990s, today they are recognized as the work of American folk artists. Gary Monroe tells the story behind the Highwaymen, a loose association of 25 men and 1 woman from the Ft. Pierce area--a fascinating mixture of individual talent, collective enterprise, and cultural heritage. He also offers a critical look at the paintings and the movement's development. Added to this are personal reminiscences by some of the artists, along with a gallery of 63 full-color reproductions of their paintings., This text introduces a group of young black artists who painted their way out of the despair awaiting them in 1950s Florida. Emerging in the late 1950s, the Highwaymen created idyllic, quickly realized images of the Florida dream and peddled some 100,000 of them from the trunks of their cars.
LC Classification NumberND1351.6.M66 2001
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- 05. Okt. 2015
Plates of hard to get art.
Having grown up in Florida and traveled the Dixie Highway many times over I remember seeing these paintings in the motels we stayed in. I was only a child but the paintings fascinated me then as they do now. The style is raw and bursting with color. These paintings have all but disappeared from view. The next best thing to owning a real one for me was to get the book. Now I have all of them and my memories of actually seeing many of the originals.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 24. Jun. 2020
Awesome book
We collect Highway men art, so this book is the definitive book on the subjectBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 21. Mai. 2020
Great on any coffee table anywhere
Great collection of Tropical FL Native artworkBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 24. Nov. 2021
Beautiful book
Beautiful renditions of the paintings. Very insightful and personal background stories of these amazing painters.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 06. Mär. 2023
Beautiful portion of history in Florida
Good information, gorgeous photos of the paintings.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 18. Dez. 2018
well done
Condensed history of some very talented artistsBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
