Oral history interview with Leon Golub
odd: label: General
content: An unrelated interview of Stuart Klonis conducted by B. Hooton is also on this tape.
name: label: Creator
content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Hooton, Bruce Duff, 1928-
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Golub, Leon, 1922-2004
label: Interviewer
content: Hooton, Bruce Duff, 1928-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; New York, N.Y.; b. 1922, in Chicago, Ill.; d. Aug. 8, 2004, in Manhattan, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recording, 7 in.)
label: Extent
content: 9 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.golub65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Leon Golub conducted by Bruce Hooton in 1965 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Golub speaks of his education at the University of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago Art ; the unusual nature of the Expressionists; the influence of Classical art on his work; living in France; an interest in describing notions of humanity in his work; influences of primitive ideology on his work; the difference between public and private art; the idea of metaphysical and physical combat in his work, especially in relation to his service in the army; implications of certain paintings he had in his studio at the time of the interview. Golub also recalls Robert Indiana; Kathleen Blackshear, Robert Leventhal, Paul Wieghardt, Max Beckmann, Hugo Weber, Bill Payton, Alton Pickens, Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso, José Clemente Orozco, Jackson Pollock, and others.