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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/827-17.jpg
Title	Mercenaries II.
Creator	Golub, Leon Albert (American painter and printmaker, 1922-2004)
Date	1979
Cultural Context	American North American
Style/Period	Contemporary Postmodern
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Acrylic paintings (visual works) Social issues Politics Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Profiles (figures) Men (male humans) Mercenaries Soldiers Military personnel Standing Costume (mode of fashion) Shirts Undershirts Trousers Shorts (garments) Belts (costume accessories) Hats Berets Headgear Sunglasses Eyeglasses Weapons Firearms Machine guns
Subject	Paintings Acrylic paintings Political issues Politics & government Corruption Men Mercenaries (Soldiers) Soldiers Military personnel People associated with military activities Military life Conversation Smiling Standing Clothing & dress Shirts Trousers Belts (Clothing) Hats Berets Headgear Sunglasses Eyeglasses Arms & armament Firearms Machine guns
Description	"Set against huge fields of red oxide on mural-sized, unstretched canvases, Golub's figures' frozen poses fleetingly echo those on Greek pottery, but they travesty classical faith in the body." (Caption, p.205); "Another rediscovered American painter was Leon Golub. Since the 1950s Golub had been developing a scarred and lacerated figuration, responding to issues such as the use of napalm in the Vietnam War, but his reputation was consolidated when he exhibited his Mercenaries and Interrogations in 1982. Depicting a world of brutalized males, paid to carry out human violations at the political margins, Golub avoided a moralizing position. His mercenaries and interrogators swap banter among themselves and gaze out of his pictures as though assuming our complicity in their actions. Sometimes a bound or gagged victim is present. Golub painted the works on the floor, dissolving build-ups of paint with solvents and then scraping the surface with a meat-cleaver. Paint adheres in the weave of his canvases as though corruption were etched into the creases of his protagonists' clothes, the laughter lines around their eyes." (Excerpt, p.204)
Material	Acrylic on canvas Acrylic paint Paint Canvas
Measurements	305 x 366 cm
Technique	Painting (image-making) Acrylic painting (technique)
Work Type	Paintings Acrylic paintings
Repository	Museum of Fine Arts [Musée des Beaux-Arts] (Montreal, Canada)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.205, fig.104)
Rights	Photo Phillipe Bérard. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Collection. Horsley and Annie Townsend bequest. (1983.1)
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 827-17.jpg
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