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Mark Antliff received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (1993) and Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939 (2007) as well as co-author of Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy (with Matthew Affron, 1997), Cubism and Culture (with Patricia Leighten, 2001), and A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism 1906-1914 (with Patricia Leighten, 2008). His research and teaching interests focus on art in Europe before 1945, with special attention to cultural politics in all its permutations, as well as the interrelation of art and philosophy.

Education:

• PhD Yale University 1990
• MA Queen's University 1984
• BA (Honours) McGill University 1981

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• Arthist 70d.001, Intro to history of art Synopsis

  East duke 108, MW 10:05 AM-10:55 AM

• Arthist 184.01, Hst of impressionism Synopsis

  East duke 108, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

1.  Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939, Duke University Press. (2007).
2. Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten. A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism 1906-1914, University of Chicago Press. (2008).  [abs]
3. M. Antliff and Patricia Leighten. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames & Hudson Press, (2001). (French Edition, 2002, Cubisme et culture)
4. "The Jew As Anti-Artist: Georges Sorel, Antisemitism, and the Aesthetics of Class-Consciousness." Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation. Edited by Matthew Baigel, Milly Heyd and Rose Carol Washton-Long.  (2010): 19-50.
5. "Classical Violence: Thierry Maulnier, French Fascist Aesthetics, and the 1937 Paris World’s Fair." Modernism/modernity  (2008): 45-62.
6. "'Their Country’: Henri Gaudier, Anarchism, and Anti-Militarism, 1910-1914." ‘We the Moderns': Gaudier Brzeska and his European Contemporaries. Edited by Sebastiano Barassi.  (2007): 75-87.
7. "Georges Sorel and the Anti-Enlightenment: Art, Politics, Ideology." Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914: A Symposium. Edited by June Hargrove and Neil McWilliam.  (2005): 307-332. (Studies in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington)
8. M. Antliff and Patricia Leighten. "Primitive." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff.  (2003).
9. "Fascism, Modernism and Modernity." The Art Bulletin (The State of Art History Series)  (March, 2002): 148-69. (reprinted in Critical Concepts in Political Science: Fascism, eds. Matthew Feldman and Roger Griffin, Routledge (2003))
10. "Machine Primitives: Philippe Lamour, Germaine Krull, and the Fascist Cult of Youth." Qui Parle  (2001): 57-102.
11.  Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy.  edited by Matthew Affron and Mark AntliffPrinceton University Press, (1997). (Contributors: Walter Adamson (History, Emory University); Matthew Affron (Art History, University of Virginia); Emily Braun (Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York); Michele Cone (Art History, New School for Social Research); Emilio Gentile (Political Science, Universita di Roma); Nancy Locke (Art History, Wayne State University); Marla Stone (History, Occidental University))
12.  Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Princeton University Press, (1993).

Selected Invited Lectures

1. "Fascism, Modernism and the Cult of Youth", May 2008, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada    
2. "Aestheticized Violence: The Vorticism of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska", 24 April 2008, National Humanities Center    
3. "Machine Age Fascism: Philippe Lamour and the New Vision Photography of Germaine Krull", April, 2008, University of Iowa    
4. “Anarchisms: the Legacy of Neo-Impressionism in France and Italy, 1900-1914", 2007, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York    
5. “War Against War: Anti-Militarism, Anarchism, and the Vorticist Aesthetic of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska”, 2007, Keynote, 4th Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies, University of Iceland, Reykavik, Iceland    

Selected Talks

1. "Anarchist Vortex/ Sculptural Nominalism: Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Ezra Pound", 20 November 2009, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds    
2. "Vorticism, Violence and Modernity", 19-21 September 2008, Modernism/Anti-Modernism Conference, Bucharest, Romania    
3. "The Violent Muse: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and World War One", February 2008, Special session in honor of Robert L. Herbert, College Art Association Conference, Dallas, Texas