Fritz Bultman’s Actaeon Paintings: Sexuality, Punishment, and Oedipal Conflict

July 15, 2001

[1] The artists who emerged as the Abstract Expressionists in the 1940s were as a group notoriously macho and homophobic. For Fritz Bultman (1919-85), a young painter associated with this first generation of the New York School, such attitudes could only have added to his persistent state of discomfort. In...