Overview

Leon Golub (1922-2004) was one of postwar America's most politically engaged artists. His frieze-like figurations of human cruelty and the crimes of warfare kept political painting alive throughout the countless changings of the avant garde of the 1960s and 70s, and his vocal ethical stance and intransigent emphasis on content remains refreshing today. Golub addressed events as they unfurled, from Vietnam to South Africa to Iraq and Afghanistan, confronting chilling acts of brutality head-on, in a weathered, scratchy style synthesized from sources as various as Etruscan and Roman art, French history painting, pornography and sports photographs. This attractively designed full Golub overview accompanies a 2011 retrospective exhibition at the Reina Sof a. Including 150 color plates, it surveys paintings from the 1950s to the present, giving Golub's heroic life work its full due.
ISBN-13

9788475069753

ISBN-10

8475069754

Weight

1.67 Pounds

Dimensions

7.50 x 0.50 x 9.50 In

List Price

$35.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Turner

Published On

2011-07-31


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