Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-353) and index.
Contents:
"The new heroism" : Karl Zerbe's beginnings, the German avant-garde, and 'Entartete Kunst' in Boston -- Immigrant childhoods : the education of Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine -- Society as a morality play : Jack Levine's view of the world -- Mystery and materiality : Hyman Bloom's spiritual renderings -- Teaching by example : Karl Zerbe's painting and pedagogy -- Challenging established assumptions : David Aronson, other museum school students, and the debate at the Institute of Contemporary Art -- Reestablishing roots : Aronson, Guston, and a renewed figurative expressionist debate -- Conclusion : figurative expressionism beyond Boston.
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