Napalm Flag is artist Leon Golub's angry gesture over the Vietnam War, a “symbolic icon of nationhood as a visceral and bloody stain”. Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real by Jon Bird (Reaktion Books, £17.95, $29; pbk) assesses the history painter's life and work.
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Sign of the times. Nature 407, 673 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35037647
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