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

Modernism and politics in early 20th-century Europe; primitivism; the 'human/animal divide' & visual culture

Current projects:

Modernism and Anarchism (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

Area of Interest: European and North American modernism
art and politics
primitivism
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 A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris (forthcoming University of Chicago Press 2010), 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]). Her field of research is late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century art and anarchism. 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

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• Arthist 199.01, Hist photo 1839-present Synopsis

  East duke 204b, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• Arthist 283s.01, Topics modern art Synopsis

  Nasher 119, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

1.  A Politics of Form: Art, Anarchism, and Audience in Avant-Guerre Paris.  University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2010.  [abs]
2. "Artists in Times of War: Response to Ariel Dorfman’s 'Picasso’s Closet'." Art Bulletin  (March, 2009).
3. "Café Scene; Salomé; Head of a Woman; Vase, Gourd and Fruit; Scallop Shells on a Piano; Still Life with Calling Card; and Ace of Clubs." Picasso and the Allure of Language. Edited by Susan Greenberg Fisher.  (2009).  [abs]
4. with M. Antliff. A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914. University of Chicago Press, (2008).  [abs]
5.  Modernism and Anarchism.  "MODERNISM AND . . ." Series Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming 2012. (under contract; in progress)  [abs]
6. with M. Antliff. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, (2001). (Cubisme et culture, Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2002)
7. with M. Antliff. "Primitive." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff, University of Chicago Press. revised edition (2003).
8. "Colonialism, l'art nègre, and les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Edited by Christopher Green, Cambridge University Press.  (2001).
9. "Reveil Anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art." Modernism/modernity  vol. II (April, 1995): 17-47. [html]
10. "Cubist Anachronisms: Ahistoricity, Cryptoformalism, And Business-As-Usual in New York." Oxford Art Journal  vol. XVII (Fall, 1994): 91-102. [1360577]
11.  Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914. Princeton University Press, (1989).

Selected Invited Lectures

1. Keynote: Modernism, Anarchism and War, to be delivered November 2010, Modernism Studies Association, Victoria, BC    
2. Abstracting Anarchism: Élisée Reclus, František Kupka and the Project of Modernism, September 2008, Symposium: Modernism and Antimodernism: Theories, Visions, Ideologies, Politics, National Museum of Romanian Literature and the Amfiteatru Foundation, Bucharest, Romania; and Conference: Humanity and the Earth/L’Homme et la terre: The Legacy of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), Loyola University, New Orleans, October 2006    
3. A 'Rationale of Ugliness': Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience, 1908-13, April 2008, University of Iowa; and Conference: The Exotic in the Modern: from Gauguin and Rousseau to Surrealism, Tate Modern, London, December 2005    
4. Violence vs. Creativity in Kupka's Anarchist Art and Aesthetics, September 2007, Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Avant-Garde Studies on 'Avant-Garde and Violence', University of Iceland, Reykjavik    
5. The Utopian and Dystopian Visions of František Kupka, May 2006, Scuola di Studi Avanzati di Venezia, Venice International University; Conference: New Approaches to Primitivism and Modern Culture, Rice University, February 2001; University of Virginia, February 2001; University of Edinburgh, November 2000; University of Missouri, Kansas City, October 2001; The Courtauld Institute, University of London, November 1999; Conference: The New Modernisms, Modernism Studies Association annual conference, October 1999; and Conference: France 1900: Visual, Literary, and Political Cultures, University of Bristol, November 1999    
6. "Primitivism, Modernism and the Renovation of Culture", February 2004, Center for the Humanities, Loyola College, Baltimore    
7. "The Languages of Collage: Politics and Counter-Politics in Picasso and Gris", November 2002, Visual Culture Colloquium, Cornell University; and University of St. Andrew’s, Scotland, October 2002    

Selected Public Lectures

1. Expatriates and Exiles, November 2008, UAAC Annual Conference, Toronto