“To represent terrible and questionable things is, in and of itself, an expression of the artist’s instinctive desire for power and glory; he does not fear them.” Nietzsche, The Will to Power The post-war period, with its constant global conflicts, was a rich one for history painting, and the genre dominated American art of the 60s and 70s from the onset of the Vietnam war. Leon Golub (1922-2004) was the foremost history painter of the late twentieth century. After depicting