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.�