"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.
