Mark Antliff

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 most recent book, Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde (Penn State Press, 2021) was short-listed for Nanovic Institute for European Studies' Laura Shannon Prize in 2024. A collection of his writings will soon be appearing in Russian translation with the dissident Equalité Press under the title The Aesthetics of Anarchist Activism: Essays on Resistance to the State, Power, and Fascism. He is currently researching the history of radical pacifism and aesthetics in Britain and Europe from the period of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) to the advent of the Atomic Bomb.