Author: New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Arts Center, January 11 to March 23, 2003; three additional venues
Title: Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois
Description: Hardcover. Black cloth, pictorial DJ. ix, 110 pp. 21 bw ills. 65 color plates. First monograph on Bourgeois. Essays by Dan Cameron, Estill Curtis Pennington, David Rubin and a foreword by Jay Weigel. Work of a figurative artist whose meticulously detailed paintings and sculptural assemblages present icons of popular culture as well as everyday people from Louisiana's diverse populations. With .. realist imagery, his work combines religious figures, pop-culture artifacts, environmental concerns, social issues, and the iconic stars of Hollywood's golden age and contemporary rock 'n' roll .. color reproductions of key works dating from 1975 to 2001 .. 65 color plates, 21 black-and-white illustrations"--Dustjacket. Contents as follows: Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois /; David S. Rubin; 1 --; The Earthly Delights of Bourgeois's America /; Dan Cameron; 39 --; A New Place to Dwell: Seeking Douglas Bourgeois's Magic Realism /; Estill Curtis Pennington; 75. VG/VG exlibrary with no extrnal marks, two small labels and a check-out slip at rear of book. Superb shelf appeal.

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