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Boston modern : figurative expressionism as alternative modernism
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- Creator
- Judith Bookbinder
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, [2005]
- ©2005
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- x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781584654889, 1584654880
- OCLC
- ocm57652272
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-353) and index.
- "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