• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• "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
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index