Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion?

Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition Leon Live & Die Like a Lion?, this volume is the first to focus on the late drawings of American artist Leon Golub (1922-2004). Though he was most often noted as a painter, Golub used drawing as a foundational tool in his practice. The drawings published here mark a stylistic and thematic shift from a long-term preoccupation with the atrocities of the external world towards an exploration of the personally revelatory. In addition to essays by exhibition curator Brett Littman and scholar Eduardo Cadava, the publication features nearly 50 color plates of the artist's oil stick and ink on Bristol board and vellum drawings made between 1999 and 2004. It also showcases Golub's only existent unfinished painting - a chalk sketch of two lions that he started in 2001 but never completed - as well as appendixes of preliminary background drawings and original source material from a variety of wide-circulating periodical