Walks to the Paradise Garden : a lowdown southern odyssey / Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, Guy Mendes ; edited by Phillip March Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008, author.

Contributor:

Manley, Roger, photographer.

Mendes, Guy, photographer.

March Jones, Phillip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Southern States.

Artists.

Automobile travel--Southern States.

Automobile travel.

Southern States--Description and travel.

Southern States.

Travel.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lexington, KY ; New York, NY : Institute 193, [2019?]

Summary:

"Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929-2008). This book chronicles Williams' road trips across the Southern United States with photographers Guy Mendes and Roger Manley in search of the most authentic and outlandish artists the South had to offer. Williams describes the project thus: 'The people and places in Walks to the Paradise Garden exist along the blue highways of America.... We have traveled many thousands of miles, together and separately, to document what tickled us, what moved us, and what (sometimes) appalled us.' The majority of these road trips took place in the 1980s, a pivotal decade in the development of Southern 'yard shows' and many of the artists are now featured in major institutions. This book, however, chronicles them at the outset of their careers and provides essential context for their inclusion in the art historical canon"--Back cover.

Notes:

This volume is published on the occasion of the exhibition Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, March 2-May 19, 2019.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1732848203

9781732848207

OCLC:

1080273940