Truckload of art : the life and work of Terry Allen : an authorized biography
Greaves, Brendan2024
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'Truckload of Art' exhaustively traces Terry Allen's extraordinary life from his childhood in post-war Lubbock, Texas, spent ringside and side stage as the only child of a professional ballplayer turned concert and wrestling promoter father and a barrelhouse piano player mother, to his revelatory years as a wide-eyed art student and fledgling musician in incendiary 1960s Los Angeles, and through subsequent decades of troubles and triumphs doggedly pursuing an uncompromising artistic practice distinct from, and often contrary to, prevailing currents. With humour and critical acumen, Brendan Greaves deftly recounts how the artist built a career and cult following based on multiyear and multimedia bodies of richly narrative, interconnected art and theatrical works.
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Author:
Greaves, Brendan, author
Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2024.
Collation:
576 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780306924545 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
709.2
Language:
English
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BRN:
2679128
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