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Leon Golub Biography
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1942 |
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University of Chicago, BA
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1949 |
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
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1950 |
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
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1995 |
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Visual Art Award, National Foundation of Jewish Culture, New York
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1996 |
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Hiroshima Art Prize (Jointly with Nancy Spero)
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1996 |
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Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1997 |
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Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Nancy Spero)
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1999 |
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The Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, Carnegie
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1999 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Hartford
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2000 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
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2002 |
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Dickinson College Arts Award
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Did It!, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. New York, NY
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2008
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Transformation: Phase I BCAM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
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2008
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That Was Then This is Now. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
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2007
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In Someone Else’s Skin Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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2006
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Leon Golub Wako Works of Art Tokyo, Japan
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2006
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Leon Golub (1922-2004), Peintures et Dessins, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris (solo)
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2006
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Leon Golub We Love Our Leader Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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2005
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Toward the Future—Through the Eyes of the Artists, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
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2004 - 2005
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DA2/Salamanca, Spain
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2004 - 2005
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Centro Jose Guerrero/Granada
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2004 - 2005
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Laocoon Devoured, Artium/Vitoria-Gasteiz
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2004
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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Nov 21 2001 - 2003
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Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA
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2003
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Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
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2003
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Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo)
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Nov 21 2001 - 2002
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Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria
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2002
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris (solo)
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2002
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Crown Gallery, Brussels (solo)
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2002
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Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
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2002
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Reconfiguration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing
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Nov 21 2001 - 2001
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Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Nov 21 2001 - 2001
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Leon Golub: Paintings 1950-2000, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY and Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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Nov 21 2001 - 2001
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While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
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2001
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Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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2001
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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2000 - 2001
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Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2000
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Kwangju Biennale 2000, Art and Human Rights Section, Korea
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2000
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Trans + kaputt, Christine König Galerie Vienna
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2000
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Leon Golub Paintings, Stedelijk Museum vor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Belgium
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2000
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Leon Golub, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland and tour
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1999
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Leon Golub, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA and tour
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1999
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Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA
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1999
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To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center fof Photography Midtown New York and tour
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1998
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Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT
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1998
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Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Museo Jacobo Borges Caracas, Venezuela
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1998
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Presence of the Greek Myth, Instituto di Storia dell'Arte Palermo, Italy
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1998
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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1997
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Views from Abroad-European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1997
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Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
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1996
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Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art New York
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1996
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Sphinx and other Enigmas, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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1996
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Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art, travelling show, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1996
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Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima City, Japan
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1996
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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1995
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War and Memory, The American Center, Paris, France and travel
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1995
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Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
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1995
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Murder, , Bergamot Station Arts Center Santa Monica, CA
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1995
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Snake Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
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1995
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25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
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1995
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Violence Zone: The Weimar Installation, OrangerieSchlob Belvedere Weimar, Germany
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1994
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Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago, IL
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1994
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Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, , Whitney Museum of American Art NYC
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1994
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Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, , UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum
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1993
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43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, , The Corcoran Museum of Art Washington, DC
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1992
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Americas, , Andalusia Pavillion, Expo `92
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1992
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Retrospective Exhibition, Malmo Konsthall Malmo, Sweden
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1991
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Inheritance & Transformation, , The Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin
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1991
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Worldwide, The Brooklyn Museum, Grand Lobby Installation New York and tour
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| Literature |
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2009
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ARTnews. “Leon Golub.” Robert Ayers
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2008
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The New Yorker. “Leon Golub.”
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2008
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The Brooklyn Rail. “What More Can You Ask of Painting? Leon Golub Did It!” Jonathan Smith
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2006
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David Marcus, ‘Leon Golub’, The Brooklyn Rail, March
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2006
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David Levi Strauss, ‘Where The Camera Cannot Go’, Apenture, no. 162, pp. 54-62
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2004
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Robbie Conal, ‘Leon Golub’, Beautiful Decay, Issue 1, pp. 50-53
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2004
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Gerald Marzorati, ‘Night Watchman’, Artforum, November, pp. 23-24
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2004
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Meeka Walsh and Robert Enright, ‘Fancy Dancer’, Border Crossings, issue no. 91
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2004
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Charles Darwent, ‘Leon Golub’, The Independent, 25th August
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2004
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Phong Bui, ‘A Tribute: Leon Golub’, The Brooklyn Rail, September
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2004
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Clay Esholman, ‘Leon Golub 1922-2004’, The Brooklyn Rail, September
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2004
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David Levi Strauss, ‘Remembering Golub’, The Brooklyn Rail, September
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2004
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‘Leon Golub’, The Times, August
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2004
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Adrian Searle, ‘Leon Golub’, The Guardian, August 13
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2003
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Lea Hollman, ‘Bitter truth of human nature,’ Los Angeles Times, 2nd May
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2001
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'Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee', Amei Wallach, The New York Times
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2000
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Bird, John. Leon Golub Echoes of the Reall. London, England: Reaktion Books, 2000
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2000
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'Leon Golub', David Frankel, Artforum
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2000
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Jo-Anna Isaak, ‘Rebel With A Cause,’ CIRCA 93, Dublin, Autumn, pp. 35-37
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1999
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Leon Golub While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1999
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1997
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Leon Golub: Do Paintings Bite? Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Germany: Cantz Verlag
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1996
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'Beauty and the Beast', Peter Schjeldahl, The Village Voice
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1996
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'Leon Golub', David Frankel, Artforum
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1996
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'2 Artists Always Prowling for Ideas to Use Again', Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times
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1995
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'Bearing Witness', Christine Temin, The Boston Globe Magazine
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1990
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'Undercover Agent', Rosetta Brooks, Artforum
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1990
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Marzorati, Gerald. A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc.
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1984
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'Theater of Power': Carter Ratcliff, Art in America
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