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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Terry Allen

Terry Allen

Allen, Terry
Hickey, Dave
Tucker, Marcia

Hardcover

Series: M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Series in Contemporary Art

ArtistsGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 029272246X
ISBN13: 9780292722460
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Apr 15 2010
Pages: 312
Weight: 4.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 10.20 Depth: 12.20
Language: English

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.

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