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 Recent Faculty Publications

Late 19th and Early 20th Century Art, History of Photography, Theory & Criticism

Modernism and politics in early 20th-century Europe and North America; history of photography

Current projects:

anarchism and art, cubism and primitivism, anarchism and photography

Area of Interest: European and North American modernism
art and politics
history of photography

Patricia Leighten received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She is author of Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914 (Princeton University Press 1989) and, co-authored with Mark Antliff, Cubism and Culture (Thames & Hudson 2001 [Cubisme et culture 2002]) and A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She is currently completing her most recent book, A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press in 2009. Her fields of research are late nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and the history of photography. In her research and teaching, she is interested in the relationship between visual culture and both the politics of representation and the politics of interpretation.

Education:

• PhD in Art History Rutgers University 1983
• MA Rutgers University 1975
• BA summa cum laude University of Massachusetts/Boston 1973

Typical Courses Taught:

• Arthist 167, Modernism, avant-gardism, art Synopsis

• Arthist 187, Dada and surrealism Synopsis

• Arthist 198, Cubism and culture Synopsis

• Arthist 199, Hist photo 1839-present Synopsis

• Arthist 283s, Topics modern art Synopsis

• Arthist 369, Modernism/cultural pol

• Arthist 364, Primitivism/art/culture

1. with M. Antliff. A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914.  University of Chicago Press (in press), forthcoming Spring 2008.  [abs]
2.  A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism, and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris.  forthcoming University of Chicago Press, 2009.  [abs]
3. with M. Antliff. Cubisme et Culture. Paris: Thames & Hudson, (2002). (Trans. and rev. version of Cubism and Culture, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001)
4. with M. Antliff. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, (2001).
5.  Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914. Princeton University Press, (1989).
6. with M. Antliff. "Primitive." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, University of Chicago Press. revised edition (2003).
7. "Colonialism, l'art nègre, and les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Edited by Christopher Green, Cambridge University Press.  (2001).
8. "Reveil Anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art." Modernism/modernity  vol. II (April, 1995): 17-47. [html]
9. "Cubist Anachronisms: Ahistoricity, Cryptoformalism, And Business-As-Usual in New York." Oxford Art Journal  vol. XVII (Fall, 1994): 91-102.
10. "The White Peril and l'art negre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXXII (December, 1990): 609-630. (Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, 1990; repr. in Race-ing Art History, ed. Kymberly Pinder, London and New York: Routledge, 2002)
11. "Picasso's Collages and the Threat of War, 1912-13." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXVII no. 4 (December, 1985): 653-672. (repr. in Collage: Critical Views, edited by Katherine Hoffman, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989)