‘Leon Golub: Raw Nerve’ Review: Raging at Injustice With a Brush
Leon Golub made some of the most potent political art of the past 25 years and remains both unforgettable and difficult to come to terms with.
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Leon Golub (1922-2004) made some of the most potent political art of the past 25 years. His best known, chilling, larger-than-life images, painted on vast unstretched canvases hung on hooks threaded through grommets, force us to consider mercenaries and their victims, conjured up with ravaged, scraped expanses of pigment. Golub’s...