Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death

by Hyman Bloom and Erica Hirshler

Themes of mortality and spirituality in the long-neglected art of a midcentury American pioneer

"Bloom's unsettling paintings are fueled by a sense of existence as a state of spiritual emergency and of art as a means for transfiguring fear." -Holland Cotter, Art in America

Hyman Bloom was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky. This new study focuses on Bloom's paintings and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878468617
• ISBN13: 9780878468614
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: MFA Publications
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 11.7"