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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Arlene Bookbinder |
ISBN: | 1584654880 9781584654889 |
OCLC Number: | 57652272 |
Description: | x, 372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
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. |
Series Title: | Revisiting New England. |
Responsibility: | Judith Bookbinder. |
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Abstract:
Within Boston's unique and surprisingly receptive Anglo-Saxon and academic tradition, Karl Zerbe, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, David Aronson, Philip Guston, and others, many of whom were Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe or their children, struggled to clarify their identities as outsiders in an insider's world and as modern artists. Although at first critically and popularly well received throughout the country, Boston figurative expressionists were increasingly marginalized by the development of abstract modernism centered in New York."
"However, giving voice to the ethos of a community in flux, the movement continues to inspire artists today. The vibrant dialogue the group established between their individual perspectives and the aesthetic conventions taught at Boston's academic institutions is here at last given the prominent treatment it deserves. Boston Modern definitively challenges widely accepted notions of modernist discourse in American art history."--Jacket.
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