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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; the 'human/animal divide' & visual culture

Current projects:

"A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism, and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris", "Primitivism, cubism and its audience", "the 'human/animal divide': fin-de-siècle and avant-guerre animal rights movements and visual culture"

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, A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Cubism and Culture (Thames & Hudson 2001 [Cubisme et culture 2002]). 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. 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, (2008).  [abs]
2.  A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism, and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris.  University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2010.  [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. "Primitive." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, University of Chicago Press. revised edition (2003).
5. with M. Antliff. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, (2001).
6. "Colonialism, l'art nègre, and les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Edited by Christopher Green, Cambridge University Press.  (2001).
7. "Reveil Anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art." Modernism/modernity  vol. II (April, 1995): 17-47. [html]
8. "Cubist Anachronisms: Ahistoricity, Cryptoformalism, And Business-As-Usual in New York." Oxford Art Journal  vol. XVII (Fall, 1994): 91-102. [1360577]
9. "Picasso's Collages and the Threat of War, 1912-13." Art Bulletin  vol. LXVII no. 4 (December, 1985): 653-672. (repr. in Collage: Critical Views, edited by Katherine Hoffman, UMI Research Press, 1989) [3050849]

Selected Invited Lectures

1. Abstracting Anarchism: Élisée Reclus, František Kupka and the Project of Modernism, September 19-21, 2008, Symposium: Modernism and Antimodernism: Theories, Visions, Ideologies, Politics, National Museum of Romanian Literature and the Amfiteatru Foundation, Bucharest, Romania    
2. Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience, 1908-13, 2008, University of Iowa    
3. The Utopian and Dystopian Visions of František Kupka, May 29, 2006, Scuola di Studi Avanzati di Venezia, Venice International University    
4. Censorship and Evasion: Juan Gris and Anarchist Satire in Avant-Guerre Paris, March 18, 2005, Symposium: Art on the Margins, University of Victoria, BC    
5. "The Languages of Collage: Politics and Counter-Politics in Picasso and Gris", October 2, 2002, Visual Culture Colloquium, Cornell University, 25 November 2002 and University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland    
6. "Primitivism, Modernism and the Renovation of Culture", February 12, 2004, Center for the Humanities, Loyola College, Baltimore