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Daddy-O's book of big-ass art / Bob Wade ; with W. K. Stratton & Rachel Wade ; foreword by Kinky Friedman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wade, Bob, 1943-2019, author.
Contributor:
Stratton, W. K., 1955- contributor.
Wade, Rachel, contributor.
Friedman, Kinky, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Artists--Texas--Biography.
Artists.
Texas--In art.
Texas.
Texas--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
Wade, Bob, 1943-2019.
Wade, Bob.
Wade, Bob, 1943-2019--Catalogs.
Wade, Bob, 1943-2019--Themes, motives.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Place of Publication:
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
Summary:
"Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art features images of more than a hundred of Wade's most famous pieces, complete with the wild tales that lie behind the art, told in brief essays by both Wade and more than forty noted artists and writers familiar with Wade's work"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Foreword / Kinky Friedman
Preface
Artist's Statement / Bob Wade
Bob Wade: Projects and Photo Works / Lisa Sherman
Texas, Daddy-O, and Big-Ass Art / W. K. Stratton
P.T. Barnum Meets Robert Smithson: Or, Claes Oldenburg Speaks with Mark Twain's Accent / Jason Mellard
Funny Farm / Carl Hoover
El Paso / Ricardo "Rick" Hernandez
Pancho and Friends / Soldaderas Carla Ellard
Malibu Man / Jesse Sublett
Daddy-O and Daisy Belle / Katie Robinson-Edwards
Daddy-O's Critter Fest: Or, Stressing Togetherness / Dan Bullock
Neck & Neck / Marsha Milam
A Truckload of Steers and Other Critters / Jim Ferguson
Bug Lite / Bill Fitzgibbons
Longest Longhorns / Chris O'Connell
Daddy-O Wade: Exporter of Texas Culture / Temple Boon
I Know What Shinola Tastes Like: Iggy / Jack Massing
Attack of the Forty-Foot Iguana!: Iggy / Michael Brick
What Do You Say to a Giant Dragonfly? / Cleve Hattersley
Frogs / Shannon Wynne
"Are They Signs or Art?" / Newsweek article
The Life of Dino Bob / Lynn Barnett
The Hog and the Altoid Alligator / Andi Scull
The Saga of the Bigmouth Bass / Richard A. Holland
Beechcraft Marlin / Will Harte
Sky Art, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer 1989 / Gary Webernick
Tale of the Longhorn Tail / Leea Mechling
The Nose Cone / Bob Wade
A Healthy Shot of Texification / Mike Shropshire
The Texas Mobile Home Museum / Bob Wade
Iguanamobile / Karen Dinitz
The Cosmic Tale of the Travels of Kinky Friedman's Campaign Hat / John Kelso
New Mexico Combination Plate / John Tinker
Bob Wade's Bonnie and Clyde Mobile, Marfa, Texas / Lonn Taylor
Junkyard Dog and Skull / Bob Wade
Getting Roped / Dan O'Hara
Daddy-O's Taco Bus / DJ Stout
Daddy-O Wade's Saints Helmet / Jan Reid
Smokesax / Dick DeGuerin
Response to Warhol / Bob Wade
It Was Art, Then It Was Junk, And Now It's Gone / Steve Bennett
Texas High-Rent White Trash Art / Carlene Brady
Laguna Putt-Putt / Evan Voyles
Texas Star / Peter Gershon
Progressive CW Art / Jason Mellard
Celebrating the Texas Beer Joint / Roy Bragg
Cowboy Band / Eric O'Keefe
Ranch 616 / Kevin Williamson
Cowtown / Marc English
The Texas Ball-and-Chain Cult / Mona Da Vinci
Deep in the Art / Robert Faires
Deep-Rooted Connection / Edmond Ortiz
Daddy-O's Double Hitch to Roy Rogers / Michael Barnes
The Thirteen Cowgirls / Anne Rapp
Freedom in Being with a Like-Minded Group of Women / Diana Vela
Cowgirls and Harleys / Julie Sasse
4 Minus 2 Equals Daddy-O / Kent Zimmerman
World's Biggest Boots / Michael Hoinski
Daddy-O's Gallery of Gushers /
David Marion Wilkinson
Twin Tornadoes: Surviving the Storm, Redux / Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo
Tito's Vodka Bottle / Bert "Tito" Beveridge
Totem / Claudia Alarcón
Afterword: The Eyes of Daddy-O Are Upon You / Joe Nick Patoski
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Chronology.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Includes index.
ISBN:
1-62349-870-8

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