Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists (How Artists See) - Softcover

John Beardsley, author of Abbeville's Earthworks and Beyond, is an independent scholar, curator, and writer. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in the department of landscape architecture at the Harvard Design School.

"It's hard to imagine a more amazing group than the people you meet in John Beardsley's book. They are so interesting I can scarcely keep them out of my dreams--visionaries who turned their visions into art on a grand scale even though they had no training in art. The sheer labor of some of these people, and their accomplishments, are unbelievable. What staggering ambitions they had, and what workers they were! It is the people who make this book wonderful reading."

"Gardens of Revelation is itself a revelation, with its wealth of luminous color plates (largely photographed by James Pierce) inspiring the eye imaginatively to enter the most enticing of dream spaces. Though it transmits useful information, the volume should be seen not so much as a guide-book than as a compendium of treasures. Text and illustrations combine to earn it pride of place on that select shelf of works true to the spirit to these exemplary creators."