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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Art
20th Century Art
Theory & Criticism
Visual Studies/Visual Culture
Animal Studies

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

Current projects:

Animal Rights and Visual Culture in Pre-World War I France and Britain, Photography and Anarchism, Modernism and Anarchism

Area of Interest: European and North American modernism
art and politics
primitivism
history of photography
the 'human/animal divide'

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 The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris (forthcoming University of Chicago Press 2012), 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 politics. In her research and teaching, she is interested in the relationship between visual culture and the politics of both representation and interpretation.

Education:

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

Teaching (Spring 2012):   (typical courses)

• Arthist 49s.01, Picasso: art, culture & ideas Synopsis

  East duke 204a, M 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

• Arthist 364.01, Primitivism/art/culture Synopsis

  East duke 204a, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

1.  The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. University of Chicago Press, (2012).  [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. Mark 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 2014. (under contract; in progress)  [abs]
6. with Mark 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. “From Mutual Aid to Radical Individualism: Neoimpressionism and Fauvism in Light of Anarchist Aesthetic Theory", September 10, 2011, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA    
2. Keynote: Modernism, Antimilitarism and War (and podcast), November 11, 2010, Modernist Studies Association, Victoria, BC    
3. A 'Rationale of Ugliness': Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience, 1908-13, 2010, Norma U. Lifton Memorial Lecture in Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (October 2010)    
4. May Ray, Cubism and Primitivism, April 6, 2010, University of New Mexico Art Museum    
5. 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    
6. 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    
7. 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    
8. "Primitivism, Modernism and the Renovation of Culture", February 2004, Center for the Humanities, Loyola College, Baltimore    
9. "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