George Valentine Dureau : life and art in New Orleans /

"New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, in the mid-1960s. Not only did his career undergo a me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Howard Philips (Author)
Other Authors:	Hammer, Daniel (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2025]
Subjects:	Dureau, George, > 1930-2014. Dureau, George, > 1930-2014 > Criticism and interpretation. Artists > United States > Biography. Artists > United States > Interviews. Photographers > United States > Interviews. Painters > United States > Interviews. Biographies. Interviews.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Daniel Hammer
Introduction: The quest for beauty
L'Art de vivre
The intimate universe of George Dureau
Photography as alchemy
Art of the 1980s in New Orleans
Dangerous visions
Photography as excavation
Art in the time of AIDS
Afterword: Absolution from bewilderment
Acknowledgments
Appendixes: Timeline and maps
Interviews / Richard Balthazar / Jacqueline Bishop / Douglas Bourgeois / Donald Dureau / Christopher Fischer / Jan Gilbert and Jonathan Taylor / Becket Logan / Benjamin Morrison / Jon Newlin / Sarah Benham Spongberg / George Dureau Jonathan Webb
Eulogy
Time capsules: Posters and invitations
Art and art-related publications
Exhibitions spotlight
Image credits
Notes
Index.