Professor Patricia Leighten's recent book, The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris (Chicago, 2013) has won Choice magazine's CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. Choice is a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division the American Library Association (AMA).

From Choice: “Stereotypical views of modern art long have associated its complex visual languages with radical politics, variously calling modern paintings ‘anarchic’ and ‘revolutionary.’ In this path-forging book, Leighten illuminates the truths that underscore such truisms. . . Leighten’s serious treatment of the French satirical press is reason enough for this book to have a transformative impact on the study of modern art. . . . Essential.”