Boston modern : figurative expressionism as alternative modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bookbinder, Judith Arlene
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.H. : Hanover : University of New Hampshire Press ; University Press of New England, [2005]
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Online Access: Table of contents
ISBN:1584654880 (cloth : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "The new heroism" : Karl Zerbe's beginnings, the German avant-garde, and Entartete Kunst in Boston
  • 2. Immigrant childhoods : the education of Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine
  • 3. Society as a morality play : Jack Levine's view of the world
  • 4. Mystery and materiality : Hyman Bloom's spiritual renderings
  • 5. Teaching by example : Karl Zerbe's painting and pedagogy
  • 6. Challenging established assumptions : David Aronson, other museum school students, and the debate at the Institute of Contemporary Art
  • 7. Reestablishing roots : Aronson, Guston, and a renewed figurative expressionist debate
  • Conclusion : figurative expressionism beyond Boston.