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Leon Golub

by Jon Bird from Reaktion Books

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. In this book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition traveling to Ireland, England and the United States, Jon Bird examines the artist's work from the classically influenced early paintings through depictions of conflict and masculine aggression to compelling images of the last two decades. Despite the widespread critical attention his work has received, the range and extent of his practice and its complex interweaving of the iconographic traditions of both high and popular art have not been properly examined. 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.

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Leon Golub: Heads and Portraits (Art Random, 64)

from Kyoto Shoin International

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Leon Golub: Don'T Tread On Me!

by Robert Enright from Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/Griffin Contemporary/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Leon Golub is best known for his large-scale paintings of violence and the abuse of power, scenes as colossal in brutality as they are in size. But, throughout his long career, Golub was a prolific draftsman as well. With subjects ranging from the classical to the erotic, and media ranging from oil sticks, to conte crayons, to inks, to acrylics, Golub's drawings interrogate the condition of our world. His first major drawing period began when he was a student in the 1940s. He began to articulate the figure in motion as he embraced Graeco-Roman sculpture, and in recent years (2000-2004) his drawings became more informal and spontaneous, with subjects ranging from aggression to erotic fun and games. Don't Tread on Me! features beautiful color reproductions and is the first book dedicated exclusively to Golub's provocative mastery of the figure.

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Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: War And Memory

by Helaine Posner from MIT List Visual Arts Center

Artwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero. Contributions by Katy Kline. Text by Helaine Posner.

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Leon Golub: Dog

by Leon Golub from Onestar Press

Description: Dog is an intermix of dogs, art, and politics that views dogs as myth, symbol, aesthetic musings, and in scenes of casual and/or extreme tensions. Leon Golub chose visuals that are jittered and visually and informationally fractured, concrete and irrational. According to critic J. G. Ballard, this final book in Golub's career, since his recent death, "challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions." Dog explores what the world and human life could be once humanism is put aside--and all through images of dogs: homeless dogs, bondage dogs, running dogs, atomic dogs, and assorted canine-themed writings. A small, compact, and thought-provoking manual.

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Leon Golub: Do Paintings Bite?

by Leon Golub from Hatje Cantz Publishers

Even in his earliest work, Leon Golub rejected the formalism of Abstract Expressionism and countered it with and activist, political approach to figurative painting. This collection of his writings includes interviews with the artist.

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