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	Leon Golub: Paintings 1950 - 2000
		Leon Golub, spanning the half century of his career, has been consistently both a figurative painter and a political painter.
		Golub's interest in classical and anthropological sources is evident, as well as his experimentation in developing unique textures.
		The influences and the sources upon which Golub draws are diverse; the body of work he has produced is extraordinary in its individuality, the unique quality of its focus, and its unusual synthesis of a pronouncedly moral/political view with a thoroughly contemporary esthetic.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/Golub.htm (533 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Leon Golub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Golub, who has always painted in a unique figural style, draws upon diverse representations of the body from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, to photographs of athletic competitions, to gay pornography; often pulled directly from a huge database he has assembled of journalistic images from the mass media.
		Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000 includes several portraits of Nelson Rockefeller and Ho Chi Minh, along with images of Fidel Castro, Francisco Franco, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger.
		Golub renders his typically huge, unstretched canvases by applying layers of thick paint, then dissolving it and scraping it down with a meat cleaver.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leon-Golub (1497 words)

	Pessimism and the historical painter: Leon Golub
		Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real: A Retrospective of the Artist’s Work from 1950-2000 recently at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings of Leon Golub, 1994-1999 at the Cooper Union School of Art, closed September 11, 2001.
		Although Golub did not answer the challenge posed by conflict-riven reality as the Abstract Expressionists did by retreating behind claims of the “irreproducibility” of the objective world, he posited a kind of ahistorical universality: mankind is predisposed to these brutal conflicts, no matter what the historical circumstances.
		Golub’s portrayal of the world tends to give the impression of a false universality that does not develop: humanity is characterized by an eternal use of power against powerlessness.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/oct2001/golu-o02.shtml (1581 words)

	Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!
		Leon Golub, an American painter of expressionistic, heroic-scale figures that reflect dire modern political conditions, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
		Golub's habit of scraping down the first layer of paint on a canvas, sometimes using a meat cleaver, to leave the final surface abraded and pitted.
		Golub was included in significant group exhibitions from the 1950's onward, most recently in Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany, in 2002.
	www.artistsnetwork.org /artists/leongolub.html (812 words)

	Leon Golub, 82, painted conflict, violence - The Boston Globe
		Artist Leon Golub, whose unflinchingly raw paintings of human depravity shattered the cool demeanor of the art world and established him as an effective champion of figurative expression, died Sunday in New York City of complications after undergoing surgery.
		LOS ANGELES -- Artist Leon Golub, whose unflinchingly raw paintings of human depravity shattered the cool demeanor of the art world and established him as an effective champion of figurative expression, died Sunday in New York City of complications after undergoing surgery.
		Golub said in a Los Angeles Times interview in 1994, when he and Spero were installing a joint retrospective exhibition of their work that inaugurated the galleries of the American Center in Paris.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/08/13/leon_golub_82_painted_conflict_violence (679 words)

	David Procuniar: Interview with Leon Golub
		Golub: I soak an area of perhaps 2 ft. by 2 ft., and as it dissolves I scrape the paint surfaces which then begin to reveal the earlier layers.
		Golub: I'm still dealing with the effects of who I've been as an artist, my temperament as an artist and what are virtually the residues-the fragments, the collapsed circumstances of what I've worked with, what comes out of our culture and I'm trying to both push and ease my way through them.
		Golub: Those beliefs in abstraction come from a not always articulated but deeply held belief system that representation has failed the world and the world can only be saved in a spiritual, even physical, sense through abstraction.
	www.no-art.info /golub/interview-en.html (5264 words)

	Leon Golub \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Following the generation of New York-based artists identified by their abstract and expressionist paintings, Golub, who was born in Chicago and studied at the School of the Art Institute under the GI Bill in 1947, was very much part of an alternative style of figuration based upon the expressive possibilities of the human body.
		Golub's paintings of the 1960s and 70s are also studies in the crisis of a masculine identity that a morally unjustifiable war had provoked.
		Leon drew my attention to this essay by Adorno many years ago, and I am convinced that this series partly records his own struggle with an ending, as his dogs and lions howl and roar against the dying of the light, against separation, loss and the end of all things.
	www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1282284,00.html (1772 words)

	Leon Golub; painter who portrayed conflict and violence; 82 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Leon Golub, an artist who depicted scenes of war, torture and oppression in large-scale figurative paintings, has died.
		Golub drew upon material ranging from Greek sculpture to mass media photography and developed a technique of scraping the first layer of paint from a canvas, leaving a blistered surface.
		Golub's early work featured figures of kings, shamans or monsters, followed by a period heavily influenced by classical models, including a series entitled "Gigantomachies" portraying wrestlers in combat.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040907/news_1m7golub.html (289 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Figurative Painter Leon Golub
		Leon Golub, 82, an artist who depicted scenes of war, torture and oppression in large-scale figurative paintings, died Aug. 8 in New York of complications after surgery.
		Golub's early work featured figures of kings, shamans or monsters, followed by a period heavily influenced by classical models, including the series "Gigantomachies," which portrayed wrestlers in combat.
		Golub was born in Chicago and was a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A61545-2004Aug12?language=printer (262 words)

	eric gelber on the leon golub at the south london gallery, albright knox, brooklyn museum
		Leon Golub: Paintings (1950-2000), was at the South London Gallery and at the Albright Knox, Buffalo, and continues at the Brooklyn Museum of Art til August 19, 2001
		Golub is a stoic and a nihilist, and this is strongly reflected in the work done from the 1960s to the present.
		Golub paints flesh in a staccato style, and his marks look like they were made with colored pencils or magic markers.
	www.artcritical.com /gelber/EGGolub.htm (1937 words)

	Irish Museum of Modern Art: Leon Golub Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
		Leon Golub: Paintings 1950-2000 comprises 39 large-scale works and some 45 heads and political portraits and includes key paintings from all aspects of Golub’s oeuvre.
		Leon Golub’s work is about power and the recurring misuse of power through violence, not as an isolated inhuman phenomenon but as an expression of organised, often state-sponsored, oppression and brutality.
		Golub has described his work as “a definition of how power is demonstrated through the body and in human actions, and in our time, how power and stress and political and industrial powers are shown.
	www.imma.ie /en/page_19452.htm (708 words)

	david cohen on leon golub at ronald feldman, sandy walker at wooster arts space, jacque rochester at n3 project space
		Golub's familiar imagery is an absent presence at the octagenarian's current exhibition.
		Golub, sometime after the Colossi series, when he started to take a meat cleaver to his canvases to scrape away and distress his surfaces.
		Golub's colossi and prostitutes almost ask to be read similarly: as peripheral characters in the lives of his usual dramatis personae.
	www.artcritical.com /DavidCohen/SUN36.htm (972 words)

	Leon Golub, 82, Painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leon Golub, who died Sunday at age 82, was one of the most important American figurative painters of his time.
		Even though he maintained a nearly continuous presence on the New York art scene since in the early 1950s, Golub endured decades of neglect before his work was rediscovered in the latter part of the century, as the art world began to favor figurative art.
		Golub’s paintings called attention to things most people choose to ignore, yet they were never simply didactic.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/08/12&ID=Ar02001 (784 words)

	Leon Golub : Review : Nancy Princenthal, Leon Golub at the Brooklyn Museum's Grand Lobby: Art in America
		Golub has never before been so didactic, and for those who think his paintings can be reduced to their subject matter, this project was instructive.
		Golub's compositions, which in the paintings of mercenaries usually involve jamming figures up against the picture plane and cutting them off at the knees, the more effectively to suggest their proximity, may look like the artless expression of an urgent narrative need, but they are far more carefully calibrated than that.
		On the most elementary level, it isolated and thereby illuminated some key phrases of Golub's pictorial language, such as the juxtaposition of fl leather boots and naked flesh, or the head of a woman palmed like a basketball by her torturer, a gesture whose priestliness enhances the brutality.
	www.procuniarworkshop.com /home/index/article/38.html (670 words)

	ARTISTS :: MODERN ART / CONTEMPORARY ART / MMoCA COLLECTS
		Born in Chicago, Leon Golub received his B.A. in Art History at the University of Chicago and in the late 1940s studied art at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago under the G.I. Bill.
		Although spending the majority of his life in New York City, Golub was associated in his early career with the Chicago Imagists, most notably during the 1950s with the Monster Roster group.
		In the paintings of this period—mural-size canvases that were unframed and draped on walls—Golub, in the Mercenaries series and the White Squad paintings of the early 1980s, turned to themes of global terrorism and torture and to racial inequality and the oppression of peoples.
	www.mmoca.org /mmocacollects/artist_page.php?id=11 (373 words)

	ART: FROM LEON GOLUB, POLITICAL THUGS GALLERY - New York Times
		SINCE 1976, Leon Golub has been making paintings of mercenaries, assassins and political interrogators that do not so much stick in the mind as take it over.
		Golub's figures, based on media images, seem as familiar as the men who sell beer on television.
		Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and gained success in the 1950's with an expressive style related to Dubuffet's Art Brut.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E3DA153BF933A25751C0A962948260 (698 words)

	Leon Golub Art in America - Find Articles
		It was works like the latter, which blend Classical motifs with the raw materiality of Dubuffet, that first brought Golub to prominence when five of his paintings were included in the exhibition "New Images of Man" at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1959.
		Born in Chicago in 1922, Golub studied art history at the University of Chicago before serving in the U.S. Army as a cartographer during the Second World War.
		Golub felt ignored by an art world in which Minimal and Conceptual art were in fashion and painting seemed marginalized.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_92/ai_n6230170 (755 words)

	Leon Golub
		Golub: Both a formal move and a curious subjective inference — abstract but scarred and diseased.
		Golub: Interpretations are typically open-ended, even when there is seeming closure on circumstances — someone will come along and reinterpret or refashion and open up the situation again.
		Golub: I'm still dealing with the effects of who I've been as an artist, my temperament as an artist and what are virtually the residues — the fragments, the collapsed circumstances of what I've worked with, what comes out of our culture and I'm trying to both push and ease my way through them.
	www.jca-online.com /golub.html (5295 words)

	acrStudio \| Leon Golub, "We Love Our Leader"
		There is a long tradition of artists responding to man’s inhumanity to man and Golub has made a substantial contribution to the lineage of artists who faced atrocity head on and made an unflinching response to it.
		Golub’s indignant humanism and dark imagery gained some notoriety with his political thug narratives made during the Vietnam War.
		Golub continued through out his life to explore the darkness at the base and fringe of our world; narratives that governments and ostensibly their people, feigning ignorance, would prefer to have swept under the carpet.
	www.acrstudio.com /projects/word/golub_leon/index.htm (372 words)

	The Broad Art Foundation - The Collection - Leon Golub
		As a leader of Chicago's figurative movement in the 1950s, Leon Golub challenged the dominant styles of that time, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
		Political terror and man's abuse of power are the primary subjects rendered in his monumental and highly topical paintings.
		Golub's work makes a significant contribution to the collection's emphasis on social and political art of the twentieth century.
	www.broadartfoundation.org /collection/golub.html (288 words)

	The Brooklyn Rail - Leon Golub
		For Leon Golub, who passed away in August of 2004, history was indeed a nightmare—one in which he possessed an imperturbably waking conscience.
		By the close of the Vietnam War, Golub had entered what Jon Bird refers to as his “televisual period,” and was focusing on a large body of portraits depicting, with a traitorousness bested only by Bacon’s “Pope Innocent X,” the dons of the 20th Century.
		Golub is still clinging here to a universal aesthetic, one which will not be cast off until he bids his actors to try on the contextualizing garment of the Army fatigue, thus literalizing the metaphorical correspondences of the Gigantomachy series—bringing it all back home.
	www.brooklynrail.org /2006-03/artseen/leon-golub (1365 words)

	Golub :: Kartemquin Films
		Leon Golub’s massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see — mercenary killings, torture, and death squads.
		Golub offers not simply a profile of a painter with a political conscience, but an investigation into the power of the artist to reflect our times and to change the way we think about our world.
		Leon gave voice to ideas that we were only just beginning to consider.
	www.kartemquin.com /films/golub (899 words)

	MoMA.org \| The Collection \| Leon Golub. White Squad. 1987
		Golub has completed more than one hundred thirty prints since making his first lithographs in 1946 in his native Chicago.
		Golub has collaborated with a variety of workshops, including Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the mid-1960s and Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in New Brunswick, New Jersey, more recently.
		In addition, by turning the gaze of one of the abusers out of the picture frame, Golub implicates the viewer as a bystander in the horrifying event unfolding and intensifies the unsettling psychological impact of the composition.
	www.moma.org /collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2223&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1 (659 words)

	Obituary: Leon Golub Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Born in 1922 and educated in Chicago, Golub, while Jackson Pollock and Johns were slugging it out over Abstract Expressionism and Pop in the late 1950s, was painting hieratic figures that owed less to the New York School than to the School of Paris.
		Where Golub's Vietnam paintings had explored a brutality that apparently overcame Americans when on military service overseas, his later work explored the strain of domestic US violence: obscene gestures, snarling pitbulls, trailer trash.
		Golub foresaw all of that." As so often, he had stayed more or less where he was and allowed history to come to him.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040825/ai_n12807017 (959 words)

	Amazon.com: Leon Golub: Books: Jon Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now in his late 70s, Leon Golub is a leading exponent of history painting – painting as a narrative, symbolic expression of global, social and political relations and of the realities of power.
		As a history painter, Golub is acutely aware of the antecedents to his own imagery and symbolism; part of Jon Bird's critical project is to track and define the artist's relationship to modernism.
		Making a case for Golub's practice of "critical realism" that also takes account of the unconscious, Bird focuses on two themes that dominate Golub's work: how his art figures the body as a sign for social and psychic identity, and what might be termed the symbolic expression of social space.
	www.amazon.com /Leon-Golub-Jon-Bird/dp/1861890753 (1044 words)

	www.likeyou.com - Leon Golub - We Love Our Leader - Ronald Feldmann Fine Arts, USA-New York, N.Y. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Golub, who died in 2004, explored themes of power and vulnerability, experimenting with paint surfaces that matched the ferocity of his subject matter.
		An activist, author, and teacher, Leon Golub was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 1996 recipient of the Hiroshima Art Prize (jointly with Nancy Spero).
		Two books about Golub's work were published in 2004: "Dog" (onestar press, Paris) with layout and design by Golub; and "Don't Tread on Me: Drawings from 1947-2004" (Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Griffin Contemporary, and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London).
	www.likeyou.com /archives/leon_golub_feldman_06.htm (301 words)

	Leon Golub
		The mast comprehensive showing in Europe to date of the work of the distinguished American painter Leon Golub (b 1922) opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art an Wednesday 5 July.
		A fundamental tension is at the heart of his paintings a tension literally between the figure and the ground of the canvas, between the individual and the group within a painting and also between the role of the artist and the wider background of society.
		Born in Chicago in 1922, Leon Golub first came to prominence during the 1950s as part of the "Monster Roster", whose work depicted monsters and human I animal hybrids.
	www.artmag.com /museums/a_irela/airduim/golub.html (623 words)

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