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Hyman Bloom : matters of life and death

Title
Hyman Bloom : matters of life and death / Erica E. Hirshler with an essay by Naomi Slipp.
Publication
  • Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2019]
  • New York, New York : Distributed by ARTBOOK, D.A.P.

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Additional Authors
  • Hirshler, Erica E.
  • Slipp, Naomi
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution, issuing body.
Description
111 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait; 30 x 22 cm
Summary
Hyman Bloom (1913-2009) was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Arshile Gorky. This new study focuses on Bloom's paintings and drawings of autopsies, anatomical studies, and archaeological excavations from the 1940s and 1950s. He often returned to these subjects throughout his career, using thickly applied paint in rich colors as he aspired to present both the physical and the spiritual on canvas. Insightful curatorial essays accompanied by beautiful full-color reproductions explore this difficult but compelling work, considering themes such as the life, death, and rebirth of Bloom's artistic reputation; the growing divide between figuration and abstraction at this defining moment of American art; earlier artistic traditions of representing mortality; the relationship between these works and Bloom's Judaism, interest in eastern religions, and belief in reincarnation; and the artist's desire to find beauty and meaning within death and decay. In these drawings and paintings, as Bloom himself asserted, "the paradox of the harrowing and the beautiful [can] be brought into unity." -- publisher's description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 13, 2019-February 23, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JQF 19-1428
ISBN
  • 0878468617
  • 9780878468614
LCCN
2019933750
OCLC
1084379876
Title
Hyman Bloom : matters of life and death / Erica E. Hirshler with an essay by Naomi Slipp.
Publisher
Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2019]
Distributor
New York, New York : Distributed by ARTBOOK, D.A.P.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hirshler, Erica E., contributor.
Slipp, Naomi, contributor.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution, issuing body.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-1428
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