Imagery of the Unconscious: The Fantastic Dark and Unsettling Light of Michael Hafftka (the Zohar Book of Concealment Series) By Lori Cole Adirondack Review, Spring 2010 Issue Lori Cole is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University.  Her research focuses on the artistic exchange between the European and Latin American avant-garde. She is also a translator and art critic, writing for Artforum.com and Flash Art, among other publications.

Toward the Plane of the Sacred: Hafftka’s Great Chain of Being By Michael Brodsky Michael Brodsky is a well-known and highly respected novelist, the author of 12 published works of fiction and winner of the Hemmingway prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. He has recently released his new novel We Can Report Them, and he is the translator of Samuel Beckett's play Eleutheria. This essay is copied with the author's permission from the Housatonic Museum of Art catalogue for the 2004 retrospective of Hafftka's work.

Michael Hafftka: Dreamworks By Professor Sam Hunter Sam Hunter is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Princeton University and the author of numerous monographs including Francis Bacon, Isamu Noguchi, and George Segal, to name a few. Among his books published by Harry N. Abrams are “American Art of the 20th Century”, “Hans Hofmann”, and “Robert Rauschenberg”. Prior to his appointment to Princeton, Hunter was the director of the Jewish Museum in NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. This essay is copied with the author's permission from the Housatonic Museum of Art catalogue for the 2004 retrospective of Hafftka's work.

Michael Hafftka’s Human Universe By George Franklin George Franklin is a contemporary poet. His poetry has been published in several magazines, among them the Harvard Advocate. Most recently, three of his poems appeared in The Recorder, which is published by the American Irish Historical Society. Franklin has written several volumes of poetry, his most recent book is The View from Brooklyn. This essay is copied with the author's permission. Fly, a poem by George Franklin

Michael Hafftka A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003 This catalog was published by the Housatonic Museum of Art to accompany the retrospective show of 2004-05. It contains 23 color reproductions of maor paintings by Hafftka, critical essays by Prof. Sam Hunter and Michael Brodsky, an introduction by the Director of the Housatonic, Ms. Robbin Zella, and a poem by George Franklin III. Click on the Amazon logo to buy the catalogue.

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