Orator (Agon II)

“Irrationality disguised as rationality, is the log/illogic/motor of history, shoved forward by the ever faster momentum of media. Power & to outlive everyone else is the item! I try to comment on the ferocity of events.”

—Leon Golub, 1989

“I would dare say that what I sought to project in the 50’s, a sense of humans both obliterated and surviving under extreme circumstances is still a basic concern of my work. To assert autonomy, to understand the forces operating in our society, to visualize victimage, and for an artist to report on it are some of the beliefs under which I work. In that sense my work has not shifted from the 50’s.”

—Leon Golub, 1990