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Howard Finster

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Howard Finster (December 2, 1916 – October 22, 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. [1]

49 relations: Adam Again, Album cover, Athens, GA: Inside/Out, Athens, Georgia, Baptists, Bible, Bill Mallonee, Born again, Christian, Christmas, Documentary film, Elvis Presley, Esquire (magazine), Fables of the Reconstruction, Folk art, Fort Payne, Alabama, Garden of Eden, George Washington, Georgia (U.S. state), High Museum of Art, John the Baptist, Library of Congress, Little Creatures, Michael Stipe, Naïve art, Outsider art, Paradise Garden (Georgia), Pennville, Georgia, Pierce Pettis, Popular culture, R.E.M., Radio Free Europe (song), Raw Vision, Reckoning (R.E.M. album), Religious art, Rock music, Rolling Stone, Ronald Reagan, Sculpture garden, Shaking Ray Levis, Summerville, Georgia, Talking Heads, Timothy Beal, Trion, Georgia, Valley Head, Alabama, Venice Biennale, Vigilantes of Love, Visionary art, WAGA-TV.

Adam Again

Adam Again is an American rock band that was active from 1982 until the 2000 death of founder, leader and vocalist Gene Eugene, with Riki Michele on vocals, Paul Valadez on bass, Jon Knox on drums, Greg Lawless on guitar.

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Album cover

An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.

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Athens, GA: Inside/Out

Athens, GA: Inside/Out is a documentary film about the mid-1980s music scene in Athens, Georgia, U.S. The film features interviews and concert footage of local bands who were a part of the scene at the time of the documentation as well as local legends R.E.M., Pylon, and The B-52's.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and American college town in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee (born January 1, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, most notably the songwriter and leader of Vigilantes of Love, an Americana, alt-country, Rock band from Athens, Georgia.

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Born again

In some Christian movements, particularly in Evangelicalism, to be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a popular phrase referring to "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit from the Holy Spirit, contrasted with physical birth.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Fables of the Reconstruction

Fables of the Reconstruction, also known as Reconstruction of the Fables, is the third studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on I.R.S. Records in 1985.

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Folk art

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople.

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Fort Payne, Alabama

Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

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Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן, Gan ʿEḏen) or (often) Paradise, is the biblical "garden of God", described most notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732 –, 1799), known as the "Father of His Country," was an American soldier and statesman who served from 1789 to 1797 as the first President of the United States.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High), located in Atlanta, is a leading art museum in the Southeastern United States.

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John the Baptist

John the Baptist (יוחנן המטביל Yokhanan HaMatbil, Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστής, Iōánnēs ho baptistḗs or Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτίζων, Iōánnēs ho baptízōn,Lang, Bernhard (2009) International Review of Biblical Studies Brill Academic Pub p. 380 – "33/34 CE Herod Antipas's marriage to Herodias (and beginning of the ministry of Jesus in a sabbatical year); 35 CE – death of John the Baptist" ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲡⲓⲡⲣⲟⲇⲣⲟⲙⲟⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ ⲡⲓⲣϥϯⲱⲙⲥ, يوحنا المعمدان) was a Jewish itinerant preacherCross, F. L. (ed.) (2005) Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Little Creatures

Little Creatures is the sixth studio album by American new wave band Talking Heads, released in June 1985.

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Michael Stipe

John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011.

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Naïve art

Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing).

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers.

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Paradise Garden (Georgia)

Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia, was the home and workplace of Baptist minister and folk artist Howard Finster and is now a public park dedicated to his life and art.

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Pennville, Georgia

Pennville is an unincorporated community in Chattooga County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Pierce Pettis

Pierce Pettis (born April 14, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter from Fort Payne, Alabama.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Radio Free Europe (song)

"Radio Free Europe" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1981 as the band's first single.

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Raw Vision

Raw Vision is a British magazine devoted to outsider art and edited by John Maizels.

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Reckoning (R.E.M. album)

Reckoning is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on April 9, 1984 by I.R.S. Records.

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Religious art

Religious art or sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Sculpture garden

A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings.

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Shaking Ray Levis

The Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in free improvisation.

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Summerville, Georgia

Summerville is a city in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

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Timothy Beal

Timothy K. Beal (born 1963) is a writer and scholar in the field of religious studies whose work explores matters of religion and American culture, past and present.

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Trion, Georgia

Trion is a town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.

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Valley Head, Alabama

Valley Head is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Vigilantes of Love

Vigilantes of Love is a rock band fronted by Bill Mallonee with a large number of secondary players drawn from the musician pool in and around Athens, Georgia.

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Visionary art

Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.

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WAGA-TV

WAGA-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Fox owned-and-operated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Finster

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