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Redresses formalist codings of American modernism of the 1950's and 1960's as a reassertion of art's social and moral purpose in response to escalating military conflict.
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As a self-styled History Painter, Golub mediates between high American abstraction and post-war European expressionism to expose abstraction's limits in portraying the widening degradation of the human condition..
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This page is a summary of: Leon Golub Powerplay: The Political PortraitsLeon Golub Powerplay: The Political Portraits curated by Jon Bird. National Portrait Gallery, London, U.K., 18 March–25 September 2016. Exhibit website: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2016/leon-golub-powerpl..., Leonardo, February 2017, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/leon_r_01363.
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