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 AlarcoĢn -- Afterword: The Eyes of Daddy-O Are Upon You / Joe Nick Patoski -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Chronology.
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.
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