Allen, Terry; Hicky, Dave; Tucker, Marcia; Ventura, Michael — Terry Allen

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2010. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth with stamped design in illustrated jacket. 301 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm. "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 It opens with a previously unpublished celebration of Allen by Dave Hickey, then covers his three largest and most important series - JUAREZ, with critical commentary by Dave Hickey; RING, with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"--. VG. Former property of an Artists workshop, only sign being remenants of a scraped off sticker at the base of spine. Otherwise a nice copy.