Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Outsiders All: Art, Religion, and Sacred Space -- Chapter 2 "Nowhere Else Is Like This": The Space of the Place -- Chapter 3 Gift Giving and Mountain Making: Exchange and Sacred Space -- Chapter 4 When Prophet Meets Exile: Salvation Mountain and the Paradox of Freedom in the American West -- Chapter 5 "Up Close, It Became the World": Pilgrimage to Salvation Mountain -- Chapter 6 "Lord Jesus, I Gave Them My Very Best": Bad Religion, Bad Art, and the Quest for Good Taste |
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Chapter 7 The Disappearance of Sacred Space? Authority and Authenticity in the Desert -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
Summary |
In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Knight, Leonard, 1931-2014.
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SUBJECT |
Knight, Leonard, 1931-2014 fast |
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Outsider artists -- United States -- Biography
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Outsider art -- California -- Salton Sea Region
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Installations (Art) -- California -- Salton Sea Region
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Christian art and symbolism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Christian art and symbolism
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Installations (Art)
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Outsider art
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Outsider artists
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California -- Salton Sea Region
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780826356314 |
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0826356311 |
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