How do you tell a story that's about baseball and jazz...Civil War battles and Cold War paranoia...love and death...true stories and lies...and a boy growing up on the flat sprawl of West Texas? Acclaimed visual artist and singer-songwriter Terry Allen created a multimedia work—Dugout—that combines writing and painting, video/sculpture installations, and musical theater to narrate, in his words, "a love story, an investigation into how memory is invented...a kind of supernatural-jazz-sport-history-ghost-blood-fiction." A three-part work based loosely on the lives of Allen's parents, Dugout has been exhibited and performed in Texas, California, and New Mexico, as well as on National Public Radio.
This volume adds another dimension to the Dugout corpus by presenting the work in book form. The heart of the book is Dugout itself. Dugout I incorporates poetry, prose, and images of two- and three-dimensional artworks to evoke the memories of Allen's parents, a retired baseball player and a former jazz pianist. Dugout II: Hold On to the House universalizes Allen's West Texas roots by fictionalizing his childhood memories into a series of video tableaux projected upon an archetypal house structure. Dugout III: Warboy and the Backboard Blues presents the script of a musical theater piece that describes his parents' shock at the unexpected outer space arrival of their "whatsit" son—a boy growing up in a world so different from their own that he might as well be an alien.
Juxtaposed among the three parts of Dugout are essays by David Byrne, artist and cofounder of the Talking Heads; Dave Hickey, art critic and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant; Dana Friis-Hansen, Director of the Austin Museum of Art; and Terrie Sultan, Director of Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. The book also includes a CD of a live performance of Dugout III. This lively combination of Allen's work and others' responses adds an intriguing layer to the evocative, atmospheric, multisensory experience of Dugout.

Dugout

Arts & Photography

Hickey, Dave

Sultan, Terrie

ALLEN, TERRY

Byrne,David

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

"Finding one particular thing at one particular time, then letting a world accumulate around it, in rough contingency, nothing quite fitting or not fitting." This is how Dave Hickey describes the work of artist and singer-songwriter Terry Allen, who creates works that proliferate into a constellation of genres as he revisits and revises his original inspirations. A painting may lead to a sculpture, which morphs into a song that takes on many voices and becomes a theatre piece or video installation. Yet, in Allen's endlessly evolving art, "nothing that you might actually see in the world is depicted, nothing is even surreal, because surrealism infers a starting point in reality. The songs are sung by disembodied voices. The stories are told by voices with regional accents. The drawings are drawn because otherwise we could not see what they are about, so they are better read as heraldry, or glyphs, or typologies than anything like pictures."
Terry Allen is the first comprehensive retrospective of this prolific artist's work. It opens with a previously unpublished celebration of Allen by Dave Hickey, then covers his three largest and most important series—JUAREZ, with critical commentary by Dave Hickey; RING, with commentary by Marcia Tucker; and YOUTH IN ASIA, with an interview of Terry Allen and commentary by Dave Hickey. It also explores Allen's other significant visual works—installations, public works and bronzes, and sculpture and works on paper. Highlighting an equally important part of the artist's oeuvre, Michael Ventura provides an insightful discussion of Allen's music. More than two hundred color and black-and-white images flow in and around the texts, providing a sweeping visual gallery of Allen's work in which, as Hickey observes, "not only are there no happy endings. There are no endings."

Terry Allen (M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series)

" This is an extraordinary collection of poetry written by a group of budding poets at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Indeed the poems selected in this volume reflect the young American Indian poet's dreams, hopes,yearnings and flashes of insight. Their poetic visions, covering such varied themes as Indian lore, the Vietnam Ar, childhood memories, thirst, and loneliness, are sensitive and vivid expression of a valuable, but hitherto ignored, facet of American literature.....".(quoted from the back-cover)

The Whispering Wind: Poetry by Young American Indians

DOUBLEDAY

If you've got big ideas and little or no cash--congratulations! You're just the person Terry Allen speaks to in No Cash, No Fear--a powerful guide to start-up success bursting with invaluable lessons for the aspiring or struggling entrepreneur. Allen, who has started more than 20 businesses in his long and illustrious career, reveals exactly how he did it with none or very little of his own money--and how you can, too! He gives you his foolproof strategies for obtaining cash from a variety of surprisingly accessible sources. You'll discover ways to sell your product before it even exists and how to get someone to give you $1 million to invest (and a Rolls Royce to boot)! Allen also reveals: * The four ingredients you need to cook up a business * Why being short of cash should never be a problem * How to start a business with $2,000 and make $15,000 profit in the first week * Why you don't need a business degree to be successful * Four commandments for running a solid, profitable company "I love this book."--Andrew Tobias, author of the million-copy bestselling classic, The Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need

No Cash No Fear: Entrepreneurial Secrets to Starting Any Business with No Money

Business & Money

Finance

wiley

This practical full-color encyclopedia begins with an introduction to the railroad modeling hobby which examines the many choices of scale, gauge, equipment, and style of layout available. The story of the history of the hobby which can trace its origins back to the early days of prototype railroads is also told here. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODEL RAILROADS describes how to build a model railroad, advising the reader on the best use of space and resources. Examples are given of the types of layout and the methods of baseboard, track, and scenery construction. The great variety of locomotives and rolling stock is discussed in detail - from ready-to-run models and kits to the highest standards of fine-scale models. As well as being a very practical book, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODEL RAILROADS features some of today's finest layouts. Many color photographs and track plans are included, with useful tips from the builders. Nearly 100 color illustrations and diagrams have been prepared for this superb encyclopedia, which also includes more than 180 excellent color photographs.

Encyclopedia Of Model Railroads

Science & Math

Crescent

Encyclopedia of Model Railways S/B Oct

Reference

Bounty Books

The beach has the power to restore us to ourselves. A day spent watching the waves or a long walk along the water's edge can bring us back to our center and remind us of the wisdom that resides within us all the time. At the ocean, it is possible to forget your daily worries and reconnect with your true self. A beautifully designed keepsake book, Beach Wisdom: Life Lessons from the Ocean offers spirited and contemplative philosophies about joy, trust, abundance, and common sense, accompanied by gorgeous full-color photographs. * Go in the water, even if it's cold. * When you catch a wave, ride it. * Just when you think it's getting too deep, you'll find a sandbar. * Sometimes the best thing is to jump right in. * To find the best shells, you have to walk slowly. Throughout Beach Wisdom, exhilarating photos and inspiring text artfully merge to capture the power and relevance of the ocean in our lives. Its pages bring a sense of peace and awareness to everyone who reads it.

Beach Wisdom: Life Lessons From The Ocean

Self-Help

Bennett, Keith

Baskin, Elizabeth Cogswell

Airplane Books

Books, Airplane

Personal Transformation

Andrews McMeel Publishing

A book no serious Office user or consultant will want to be without, this text is an advanced tutorial on many of the complex topics not found in other books. The CD contains source code from the book, VBA Libraries, Office Utilities, and an electronic version of the book.

Microsoft Office Expert Solutions

Computers & Technology

Ivens, Kathy

Carlberg, Conrad

Mosher, Sue

Payne, Donna

Devenshire, Shane

Podlin, Sharon

Novalis, Susann

Reilly, Brian

Tinney, Diane

Sullivan-Liscomb, Heidi

Lacher, John

Daffron, Susan

Messer, Toni

Operating Systems

Que Pub

The Satellite Atlas

Photographs taken from space accompany information about the geography, people, environment, and other facets of various areas of the world.

Flint, David

Skelton, Nick

Children's Books

Gareth Stevens Pub.

Five Essays on Islamic Art

Solipsist Pr

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