Author: E.R. Bills
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143966305X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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"Fascinating information…little-known facts about remarkable Texans and events across the state.”—North Dallas Gazette Texas is renowned for its legendary and colorful history—but even the state’s famous storytellers don’t know it all. Ever hear about the escaped ape in the Big Thicket? Or the "Interplanetary Capital of the Universe" that sat on the Gulf Coast? Does the cowboy hat that warmed U.S.-China relations ring a bell? From the Staked Plain Quakers to the Kaiser Burnout, E.R. Bills delves into some of the most fascinating chapters of overlooked Texas lore. Includes photos
Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525435905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author: Kippra D. Hopper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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"Celebrates the diversity of visual art created by women living and working in the western half of Texas, far from urban art communities and large national markets. Samples creative expression and method; explores the influence of the expansiveness and relative isolation of the region upon the selected artists' work"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Al Brouillette
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780890961667
Category : Painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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It is a land of contrast, of far-spreading plains and high-reaching canyon walls, and of air stretched thin--a land made for painting, not, perhaps, for living. Intrigued by the danger, the drama, and the savage light of this land of geological upheaval and downcutting, artists have long been drawn to the far west of Texas. The forty-nine paintings selected for this volume display the variety, the majesty, the glory of this vast region. It is indeed a natural studio for artists. Space and scale are there--the broad horizontals of the open plains and the stark verticals of the sheer canyons and craggy mountains. Light plays with the eye, glowing from peaks, shimmering off heat-baked white boulders, shading across wide vistas to make the passing of time. The colors of West Texas are distant blues and pastel purples, brilliant reds, suffused pinks, tender greens in the gentler areas, and everywhere browns--browns and golds. The region is a laboratory in form and the geometry of landscapes, a natural abstraction that suggests to some painters artistic abstractions. The themes of West Texas are the themes of art: eternity and man's smallness within it; the fight between man and nature, a fight which in West Texas nature usually wins; time and timelessness and change; comfort in aloneness; dominion; stillness; visual and spiritual perspective. The styles and dominant concerns of the eighteen artists represented in this volume vary, but their fascination with the region binds them together. The splendid color plates faithfully reproduce the originals, which range from realistic to impressionistic to abstract and from acrylics and oils to watercolors and pastels. Represented are the works of All Brouillette, Marbury Hill Brown, Jerry Bywaters, Finis F. Collins, Otis Dozier, Heather Edwards, Michael Frary, Frank Gervasi, John Guerin, William Hoey, DeForrest Judd, William Lester, Ivan McDougal, Clay McGaughy, Ancel E. Nunn, Stephen Rascoe, Everett Spruce, and E. Gordon West. The artists whose paintings appear have all been touched by far We3st Texas. The land between the rivers has given to them, and they give to us.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Issues for 1962- include as a separate section the association's annual roster.
Author: University of Texas
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: Texas University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Author: Ferdinand Eugene Daniel
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Sarah Greenough
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166303
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Collects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.
Author: Sam Houston Dixon
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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