Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Yale University 1990
  • M.A., Queen's University 1984
  • B.A., McGill University (Canada) 1981
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2006
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 1, 2015

    Duke Announces 2015 Distinguished Professors
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  Awards & Honors

  • Senior Fellowship. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. July 2013
  • Marta Sutton Weeks Fellowship. Stanford Humanities Center. July 2012
  • Fellow. National Humanities Center. 2003
  • School of Historical Studies/ Members. Institute for Advanced Study. 1999
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1995
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Anarchism
  • Art and philosophy
  • Art and society
  • Cubism--Influence
  • Fascism and culture
  • Futurism (Art)
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • France (Country) 
    • Italy (Country) 
    • United Kingdom (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Antliff, M., and P. Leighten. Le cubisme devant ses contemporains – Documents et critiques (1906-1914). Paris: Les presses du réel, 2019.
    • Antliff, M. Sculpture Against the State: Anarchism, Vorticism and the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde, 2014.
    • Antliff, M., and Scott 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, 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, M. “From Class War to Creative Revolution: Bergson, Communitas and the European Left.” Annales Bergsoniennes, December 2014.
    • Antliff, M. “From Class War to Creative Revolution: Bergson’s Communist Legacy in Britain.” Annales Bergsoniennes, 2014.
    • Levebre, Alexandre, Melanie White, and M. Antliff. “Bergson, Politics and Religion.” Symplokē, 2014.
    • Antliff, M. “Contagious Joy: Jacob Epstein, The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, and Action d’art.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, October 2013.
    • 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. “Nasjonens kroppslighet: kubisme og keltisk nasjonalisme.” Paginert Utgave I Teori & Praksis 1 (2012): 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): 155–87.
    • 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. “Labor, Leisure, and Dissident Socialism: Robert L. Herbert’s Social History of Art.” Edited by Philippe Bordes, 2011.
    • 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.
    • Mark Antliff, M. “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, M. “Classical violence: Thierry Maulnier, French Fascist Aesthetics and the 1937 Paris World's Fair.” Modernism  Modernity 15, no. 1 (January 1, 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. “Response to Roger Griffin's: The Primacy of Culture: The Current Growth (or Manufacture) of Consensus in Fascist Studies.” Journal of Modern History, April 2002, 267–72.
    • Antliff, M. “Fascism, modernism, and modernity.” Art Bulletin 84, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 148–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/3177257.
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    • Antliff, M. “Emily Braun, Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics under Facism (2000),” November 2001.
    • 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 in the Shadow of Marx: David Cottington, Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris, 1905-1914, Yale University Press, 1998.” Art History, September 1999, 444–50.
    • Antliff, M. “David Weir, Anarchy and Culture: The Aesthetic Politics of Modernism, University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.” Modernism/Modernity, January 1999, 167–69.
    • Antliff, M. “Cubism, futurism, anarchism: The 'aestheticism' of the action d'art group, 1906-1920.” Oxford Art Journal 21, no. 2 (December 1, 1998).
    • Antliff, M. “Romy Golan, Modernity & Nostalgia: Art and Politics between the Wars, 1995,” September 1997.
    • 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.
    • 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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    • Pratt, S. “Organicism against itself: Cubism, duchamp-villon and the contradictions of modernism.” Word and Image 12, no. 4 (January 1, 1996): 366–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.1996.10435439.
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    • Antliff, Mark. “Cubism, Celtism, and the Body Politic.” The Art Bulletin 74, no. 4 (December 1992): 655–655. https://doi.org/10.2307/3045916.
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    • Antlfif, M. “Bergson and Cubism: A reassessment.” Art Journal, December 1988, 341–49.

  • Book Sections

    • 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 O. Botar 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, M. “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, M. “’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. “Modernism.” In Historical Encyclopedia of World Fascism, Edited by Cyprian Blamires. ABC-Clio Press, 2006.
    • Antliff, M. “Bergson.” In Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter. Macmillan Press, 2006.
    • Antliff, M. “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, M. “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, M. “Creative Time: Bergson and European Modernism.” In Tempus Fugit, edited by Jan Schall, 35–65. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2000.
    • Antliff, M. “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, M. “Bergson and Poltics 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.
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  Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

  • The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 | at Tate Britain, London 2010 - 2011
  • The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 | at The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University 2010 - 2011
  • The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 | at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 2010 - 2011
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Exhibits

    • The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918. Creator. 2010
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ARTHIST 280: European Art 1900-1945 2019
  • ARTHIST 298: History of Impressionism 2019
  • ARTHIST 590S: Special Topics 2019
  • ARTHIST 792: Individual Research in Art History 2019
  • GSF 281: European Art 1900-1945 2019
  • ITALIAN 384: European Art 1900-1945 2019
  • ARTHIST 395S: Art History Methodology and Theory 2018
  • ARTHIST 293: Research Independent Study 2017
  • ARTHIST 543S: Methodology of Art History 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Bergsonian Vitalism: Class, Soviet or Nation State?. December 12, 2013  2013
  • Henri Bergson and Cubism: Subjectivity and the Road to Abstraction. November 28, 2013  2013
  • Henri Bergson and the European Avant-Garde: Art, Politics and Communitas. June 15, 2013  2013
  • Keynote Lecture: Bergson and Modern Sculpture. January 30, 2013  2013
  • Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde: Anarchism and Art for Insurrection's Sake, c. 1913. January 28, 2013  2013
  • From Bergson to Byzantium: The Case of Henri Matisse. April 22, 2012  2012
  • Gaudier-Brzeska and Contemporary Politics. December 1, 2011  2011
  • Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Vorticism and Anti-Colonial Discourse in London. December 1, 2011  2011
  • Richard Aldington, Vorticism and Degeneration. December 1, 2011  2011
  • The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. December 1, 2011  2011
  • 'The New Sculpture’: Vorticism and the Politics of Direct Carving. December 18, 2010  2010
  • Politicizing the New Sculpture. December 18, 2010  2010
  • Sculpture Against the State: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Dora Marsden, Ezra Pound. December 18, 2010  2010
  • Anarchist Vortex/ Sculptural Nominalism: Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Ezra Pound. December 1, 2009  2009
  • Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, Vorticism. January 1, 2009  2009
  • Their Country: Anti-Patriotism and the Vorticist Aesthetic of Henri Gaudier.. November 1, 2008  2008
  • Vorticism, Violence and Modernity. September 1, 2008  2008
  • Fascism, Modernism and the Cult of Youth. May 1, 2008  2008
  • Aestheticized Violence: The Vorticism of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. April 1, 2008  2008
  • Framing Intuition: Bergson and the Art of Matisse. April 1, 2008  2008
  • Machine Age Fascism: Philippe Lamour and the New Vision Photography of Germaine Krull. April 1, 2008  2008
  • The Violent Muse: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and World War One. February 1, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Advisory Board. January 2, 2013  2013
  • International Center for Avant-Garde Studies : Advisory Board. 2013  2013
  • Editorial Board, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 2011 - December 18, 2010  2011 - 2010
  • Editorial Board, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. 2011 - December 17, 2011  2011
  • Fellowships Committee, Guggenheim Foundation. 2011 - 2012  2011 - 2012
  • External Evaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley. December 18, 2010  2010
  • External Evaluator, Promotion to Full Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth College. December 18, 2010  2010
  • Jurer, Academy of Finland. December 18, 2010  2010
  • External recommender for appointment to Full Professor with Tenure Stanford University; and Tenure, Associate Professor Rank at Columbia University. January 8, 2008  2008
  • Session Co-Chair with Patricia Leighten, UAAC Annual Conference, University of Toronto : “Expatriate Modernists”. 2008  2008

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