Mark Antliff | Scholars@Duke

Mark Antliff
Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

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). With Vivien Greene, he co-curated 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 new book, Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde (Penn State Press, 2021).

Current Research Interests

Pacifism and the visual arts in Europe, 1930-1950

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020

Contact Information

114 S. Buchanan Blvd, Duke University, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0764
antliff@duke.edu (919) 684-2224

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1990
- M.A., Queen's University (Canada) 1984
- B.A., McGill University (Canada) 1981
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor with Tenure, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2020
- Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2020
- Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2018
- Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2006
Recognition
In the News
- MAY 1, 2015
  
  Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished Professors
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
Research
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 - 2013
- Gould Fellow awarded by National Humanities Center 2003 - 2004
- Member awarded by Institute for Advanced Study 1999 - 2000
- Fellow awarded by John Simon Guggenheim Foundation 1995 - 1996
- Post-Doctoral Fellow awarded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 1990 - 1992
- Visiting Fellow awarded by Yale University 1990 - 1992
- Mary Davis Fellow awarded by Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art 1988 - 1990
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Antliff, M. Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde (In preparation). Penn State University Press, 2021.
  - Antliff, M., and P. Leighten. Le cubisme devant ses contemporains – Documents et critiques (1906-1914). Paris: 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. Paris: 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.
- Academic Articles
  - Antliff, Mark. “Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley (eds), Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right, reviewed by Mark Antliff.” Journal of Visual Culture 20, no. 1 (April 2021): 113–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412921996294.
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  - Antliff, M. “Pacifism, realism, and pathology: Alex comfort, cecil collins, and neo-romantic art during world war II.” Modernism Modernity 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 519–49. https://doi.org/10.1353/MOD.2020.0039.
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  - 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 36, no. 2 (April 2013): 159–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1200180x.
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  - Antliff, M. “Contagious joy: Anarchism, censorship and the reception of Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde, c. 1913.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 4, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 195–225. https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.4.2.0195.
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  - Antliff, M. “Fascism and Art History: A Paradigm Shift.” Fascism 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 53–54. https://doi.org/10.1163/221162512X631189.
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  - Antliff, M. “Bad Anarchism; Aestheticized Mythmaking and the Legacy of Georges Sorel among the European Left.” Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, no. 2 (2012): 155–87.
  - Antliff, M. “Nasjonens kroppslighet: kubisme og keltisk nasjonalisme.” Paginert Utgave I Teori & Praksis 1 (2012): 1–19.
  - Antliff, M. “Shaping duration: Bergson and modern sculpture.” European Legacy 16, no. 7 (December 1, 2011): 899–918. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2011.626194.
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  - Antliff, M. “Drawing the Vortex.” Tate, Etc., June 2011, 36–41.
  - Antliff, M. “Mitos de revolución: fascismo de vanguardia en Francia.” Afinidades. Revista De Literatura Y Pensamiento, May 2011, 23–35.
  - Antliff, M. “Sculpture against the State.” Memoria E Ricerca 33 (2010): 49–62.
  - Antliff, M. “Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's guerre sociale: Art, Anarchism and Anti-Militarism in Paris and London, 1910-1915.” Modernism Modernity 17, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 135–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.0.0163.
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  - Mark Antliff, College of American. “Alvin Langdon Coburn Among the Vorticists: Studio Photographs and Lost Works by Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis and Edward Wadsworth.” Burlington Magazine CLII, no. 1290 (2010): 580–89.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Classical violence: Thierry Maulnier, French fascist aesthetics and the 1937 Paris world's fair.” Modernism Modernity 15, no. 1 (January 2008): 45–62. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2008.0001.
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  - Antliff, M., and A. Antliff. “Correspondence: Kenneth Roxroth to Hebert Read and George Woodcock.” Chicago Review: Special Issue on Kenneth Rexroth, October 2006.
  - Antliff, M. “Fascism, modernism, and modernity.” Art Bulletin 84, no. 1 (March 2002): 148–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/3177257.
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  - Roberts, D. D., A. De Grand, M. Antliff, and T. Linehan. “Comments on Roger Griffin, the primacy of culture: The current growth (or manufacture) of consensus within fascist studies.” Journal of Contemporary History 37, no. 2 (January 1, 2002): 259–74. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094020370020601.
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  - Antliff, M. “Machine Primitives: Philippe Lamour, Germaine Krull, and the Fascist Cult of Youth.” Qui Parle, 2001, 57–102.
  - Antliff, Mark. “The Fourth Dimension and Futurism: A Politicized Space.” The Art Bulletin 82, no. 4 (December 2000): 720–720. https://doi.org/10.2307/3051419.
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  - Antliff, M. “Cubism, futurism, anarchism: The 'aestheticism' of the action d'art group, 1906-1920.” Oxford Art Journal 21, no. 2 (January 1, 1998). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/21.2.99.
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  - Antliff, M. “The Jew as anti-artist: Georges Sorel, anti-semitism, and the aesthetics of class consciousness.” Oxford Art Journal 20, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 50–67. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/20.1.50.
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  - Antliff, M. “La Cite francaise: George Valois, Le Corbusier, and Fascist Theories of Urbanism.” Edited by Mark Antliff and Matthew Affron. Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy, 1997.
  - Mark Antliff, K. “Organicism Against Itself: Cubism, Duchamp-Villon and the Contradictions of Modernism.” Word & Image, 1996, 366–88.
  - Antliff, M. “Cubism, Celtism, and the Body Politic.” The Art Bulletin 74, no. 4 (December 1, 1992): 655–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1992.10786517.
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  - Antlfif, M. “Bergson and Cubism: A reassessment.” Art Journal, December 1988, 341–49.
- Book Sections
  - Antliff, Mark. “Henri Matisse's Portrait of a Standing Riffian: Islam, Byzantium, and 'Aristocratic Barbarism'.” In Image, Object, and Text: Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology, edited by Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula. Montreal: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2021.
  - Leighten, Patricia, and Mark Antliff. ““Kandinsky and Radical Ecology: States of Mind, States of Abstraction".” In Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle., edited by Tracey Bashkoff and Megan Fontanella, 29–39. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2021.
  - Antliff, Mark, and Patricia Leighten. “Anarchist Modernism after Signac: Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism.” In Paris 1900 and Post-Impressionism: Signac and the Indépendants, edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais, Gilles Genty, and Nathalie Bondil. Montreal: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2020.
  - Antliff, M. “Contagious Joy: Jacob Epstein, The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, and Action d’art (Accepted).” In Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective, edited by Carolin Kosuch. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Into the Vortex: Ezra Pound, Anarchism, and the Ideological Project of Art Criticism.” In The Companion to Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, edited by Michael Coyle and Roxana Preda, 193–213. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
  - Antliff, M. “Revolutionary Immanence: Bergson among the Anarchists.” In Bergson and the Art of Immanence, edited by John Mullarkey and Charlotte de Mille, 94–111. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
  - Antliff, M. “Politicizing the New Sculpture.” In Vorticism: New Perspectives, edited by Mark Antliff and Scott Klein, 102–18. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Introduction: Vorticisms.” In Vorticism: New Perspectives, edited by S. Klein and M. Antliff, 1–11. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Antliff, M. “La sculpture contre l’État. Gaudier Brzeska, Dora Marsden, Ezra Pound.” In 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.” In Biocentrism and Modernism, edited by Olivar Botar eds and Isabelle Wünsche, 161–81. Ashgate Publishing, 2011.
  - Antliff, M. “Labor, Leisure, and Dissident Socialism: Robert L. Herbert’s Social History of Art.” In Histoire Sociale de l’art: Une Anthologie Critique, edited by Philippe Bordes. Les Presses du Réel, 2011.
  - Antliff, M. “Sculptural Nominalism/Anarchist Vortex: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Dora Marsden, Ezra Pound.” In The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, 47–57. Tate Publishing, 2010.
  - Antliff, M. “Classicism Neither Right nor Left: the Combat Group and the Cultural Politics of French Fascism during the 1930’s.” In Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-Garde: Defining Tradition in France, 1900-1960, edited by Natalie Adamson and Toby Norris, 169–89. Cambridge University Press, 2010, 2010.
  - Antliff, Mark. “The Jew As Anti-Artist: Georges Sorel, Antisemitism, and the Aesthetics of Class-Consciousness.” In Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation, edited by Matthew Baigel, Milly Heyd, and Rose Carol Washton-Long, 19–50. Brandeis University Press, 2010.
  - Antliff, Mark. “’Their Country’: Henri Gaudier, Anarchism, and Anti-Militarism, 1910-1914.” In ‘We the Moderns’: Gaudier Brzeska and His European Contemporaries, edited by Sebastiano Barassi, 75–87. Kettles Yard Gallery, 2007.
  - Antliff, M. “Bergson.” In Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter. Macmillan Press, 2006.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Modernism.” In Historical Encyclopedia of World Fascism, Edited by Cyprian Blamires. ABC-Clio Press, 2006.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Cubism.” In Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter. Macmillan Press, 2006.
  - Antliff, M. “Georges Sorel and the Anti-Enlightenment: Art, Politics, Ideology.” In Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914: A Symposium, edited by June Hargrove and Neil McWilliam, 307–32. Yale University Press, 2005.
  - Antliff, M., and Patricia Leighten. “Primitive.” In Critical Terms for Art History, edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff. University of Chicago Press, 2003.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Modernism and Facism: French Fascist Aesthetics Between the Wars.” In Re-Thinking Images Between the Wars: New Perspectives in Art History, edited by Oystein Hjort, 13–45. Museum Tusculantum Press (Copenhagen), 2000.
  - Antliff, Mark. “Creative Time: Bergson and European Modernism.” In Tempus Fugit, edited by Jan Schall, 35–65. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2000.
  - Antliff, Mark. “The Rhythms of Duration: Bergson and the Art of Matisse.” In The New Bergson, edited by John Mullarkey, 184–208. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
  - Antliff, Mark. “"Bergson," and "Politics and Aesthetics: Aestheticized Politics".” In The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, edited by Michael Kelly. Oxford University Press, 1998.
  - Antliff, M., and Matthew Affron. “Art and Fascist Ideology in France and Italy: An Introduction.” In Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy, edited by Mark Atliff and Matthew Affron. Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Book Reviews
  - Antliff, M. “Giorgio Morandi: The art of silence.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, March 2006.
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  - Antliff, M. “Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics under Facism (2000).” Cambridge University Press, November 2001.
  - Antliff, M. “Modernity and nostalgia: Art and politics between the wars - Golan,R.” Art History, September 1997.
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Awards & Honors

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession