Mark Antliff
Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Education
Ph.D., Yale University 1990
M.A., Queen's University (Canada) 1984
B.A., McGill University (Canada) 1981
Overview
Mark Antliff received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939 (Duke University Press, 2007 and Les presses du réel, Paris, 2019) as well as co-author of Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy (with Matthew Affron, Princeton University Press,1997), Cubism and Culture (with Patricia Leighten, Thames & Hudson, 2001), and A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism 1906-1914 (with Patricia Leighten, University of Chicago Press, 2008 and Les presses du réel, Paris, 2019). He was co-curator with Vivien Greene of the major exhibition The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, which opened at the Nasher Museum of Art and traveled to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Tate Britain in London (ex. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2010-11). The conference associated with this exhibition resulted in Vorticism: New Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2013). His research and teaching interests focus on art in Europe before 1960, with special attention to cultural politics in all its permutations, as well as the interrelation of art and philosophy. His most recent scholarship, presented in numerous articles and talks, culminates in his forthcoming book, Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde (London-Milan-Paris).
Expertise
19th-20th Century European Art, Theory & CriticismContact Information
Bay 9, Smith Warehouse, Room A288, Duke University, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0764
(919) 684-5286
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Projects
Antliff, M. Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism, and the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde (London-Milan-Paris) (In preparation). 2021.
Antliff, M., and P. Leighten. Le cubisme devant ses contemporains – Documents et critiques (1906-1914). Les presses du réel, 2019.
Antliff, M., and S. Klein. Vorticism: New Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Antliff, M., and V. Greene. The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918. 2010.
Antliff, Mark, and Patricia Leighten. A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism 1906-1914. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Antliff, M. Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France, 1909-1939,. Duke University Press, 2007.
Antliff, Mark, and Patricia Leighten. Cubisme et culture. Translated by C. -. M. Diebold, Thames and Hudson, 2002.
Antliff, M., and P. Leighten. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
Antliff, M. Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy. Edited by Matthew Affron and Mark Antliff, Princeton University Press, 1997.
Antliff, M. Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Antliff, Mark. “Henri Matisse's Portrait of a Standing Riffian: Islam, Byzantium, and 'Aristocratic Barbarism'.” Image, Object, and Text: Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology, edited by Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula, McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2021.
Antliff, Mark, and Patricia Leighten. “Anarchist Modernism after Signac: Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism.” Paris 1900 and Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants, edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais et al., Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2020.
Antliff, Mark. “Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism, and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism.” The Companion to Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, edited by Michael Coyle and Roxana Preda, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp. 193–213.
Antliff, M. “Contagious Joy: Jacob Epstein, The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, and Action d’art (Accepted).” Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective, edited by Carolin Kosuch, Brill, 2019.
Antliff, M. “Revolutionary Immanence: Bergson among the Anarchists.” Bergson and the Art of Immanence, edited by John Mullarkey and Charlotte de Mille, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, pp. 94–111.
Antliff, M. “Politicizing the New Sculpture.” Vorticism: New Perspectives, edited by Mark Antliff and Scott Klein, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 102–18.
Antliff, Mark. “Introduction: Vorticisms.” Vorticism: New Perspectives, edited by S. Klein and M. Antliff, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 1–11.
Antliff, M. “La sculpture contre l’État. Gaudier Brzeska, Dora Marsden, Ezra Pound.” Artistes et Partis – Esthétique et Politique (1900-1945), edited by Maria Stavrinaki eds and Maddalena Carli, Presses du réel, 2012.
Antliff, M. “Organicism among the Cubists: The Case of Raymond Duchamp-Villon.” Biocentrism and Modernism, edited by Olivar Botar eds and Isabelle Wünsche, Ashgate Publishing, 2011, pp. 161–81.
Antliff, M. “Labor, Leisure, and Dissident Socialism: Robert L. Herbert’s Social History of Art.” Histoire Sociale de l’art: Une Anthologie Critique, edited by Philippe Bordes, Les Presses du Réel, 2011.
Pages
Antliff, M. “Giorgio Morandi: The art of silence.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 11, no. 1, Mar. 2006, pp. 97–99.
Antliff, M. Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics under Facism (2000). Cambridge University Press, Nov. 2001.
Antliff, M. “Modernity and nostalgia: Art and politics between the wars - Golan,R.” Art History, vol. 20, no. 3, Sept. 1997, pp. 505–07.
Antliff, Mark. “Pacifism, Realism and Pathology: Alex Comfort's Neo-Romantic Anti-Fascism.” Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Antliff, Mark. “Pacifism, Realism and Pathology: Alex Comfort's Neo-Romantic Anti-Fascism.” Modernism/Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Antliff, M. “From Class War to Creative Revolution: Bergson’s Communist Legacy in Britain.” Annales Bergsoniennes, 2014.
Antliff, M. “Bergson, Politics and Religion.” Symplokē, 2014.
Thompson, William Forde, and Mark Antliff. “Bridging two worlds that care about art: psychological and historical approaches to art appreciation.” The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 36, no. 2, Apr. 2013, pp. 159–60. Epmc, doi:10.1017/s0140525x1200180x. Full Text
Antliff, M. “Contagious joy: Anarchism, censorship and the reception of Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde, c. 1913.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Jan. 2013, pp. 195–225. Scopus, doi:10.5325/jmodeperistud.4.2.0195. Full Text
Antliff, M. “Fascism and Art History: A Paradigm Shift.” Fascism, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 53–54. Scopus, doi:10.1163/221162512X631189. Full Text
Antliff, M. “Nasjonens kroppslighet: kubisme og keltisk nasjonalisme.” Paginert Utgave I Teori & Praksis, vol. 1, 2012, pp. 1–19.
Antliff, M. “Bad Anarchism; Aestheticized Mythmaking and the Legacy of Georges Sorel among the European Left.” Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, no. 2, 2012, pp. 155–87.
Antliff, M. “Shaping duration: Bergson and modern sculpture.” European Legacy, vol. 16, no. 7, Dec. 2011, pp. 899–918. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10848770.2011.626194. Full Text
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
Senior Fellow awarded by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2013)
Mary Sutton Weeks Fellow awarded by Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (2012 to 2013)
Gould Fellow awarded by National Humanities Center (2003 to 2004)
Member awarded by Institute for Advanced Study (1999 to 2000)
Fellow awarded by John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1995 to 1996)
Post-Doctoral Fellow awarded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1990 to 1992)
Visiting Fellow awarded by Yale University (1990 to 1992)
Mary Davis Fellow awarded by Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (1988 to 1990)