NO CLYTMNESTRA, but s.v. Orestes: Leon Golub, ___________. “Orestes.” Painting. 1956. Collection of Lori and Alan Crane. [See D. Kuspit, Leon Golub: existentialist/activist painter (New Brunswick, N.J., 1985) 48, fig. 49. “…If one uses the perspective of the primitivist/classical dialectic to compare the various images in the ‘Priests’ series (1951 – 1952) with the later ‘Philosophers’ (1957 – 58, as well as with such images of the hero as Orestes (1956), one observes the same shift from subjectivity to objectivity, and from the totally disintegrated to the incompletely integrated. Golub’s classical figures, especially the armless Orestes, still have massive primitive wounds, but they have, as it were, accepted them as integral to their being. … Golub has no doubt swallowed some psychic pride to achieve his classicism, and his classical figures have lost the glamor of full-fledged monstrousness, but the result — a calmer sense of self and a firmer grasp of reality — seems worth it.”