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, porgraphy and sports photographs. This attractively designed full Golub overview accompanies a 2011 retrospective exhibition at the Reina Sofia. Including 150 color plates, it surveys paintings from the 1950s to the present, giving Golub's heroic life work its full due.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Turner Ediciones
ISBN-10
8475069754
ISBN-13
9788475069753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108537691
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Fine Arts / Art History
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Madrid
Content Note
Colour Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/07/2011
Imprint
Turner Ediciones
Country of Publication
Spain
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