Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Rutgers University 1983
  • M.A., Rutgers University 1975
  • B.A., University of Massachusets at Boston 1973
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 2016
  • Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2007
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award. American Library Association. 2014
  • Millard Meiss Publication Fund. College Art Association. 2011
  • Lansdowne Visiting Distinguished Scholar. English Department, University of Victoria. 2010
  • School of Historical Studies/ Members. Institute for Advanced Study. 1999
  • Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1990
  • Senior Fellow. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. 1989
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Anarchism
  • Caricature
  • Censorship
  • Modernism (Art)--France
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • France (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Antliff, M, and Leighten, P. Le cubisme devant ses contemporains – Documents et critiques (1906-1914). Paris: Les presses du réel, 2017. (Edited Book)
    • Leighten, P. The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
    • Antliff, M, and Leighten P, . A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
    • Leighten, P, Antliff, and M, . Cubisme et culture. Translated by C-M Diebold. Paris: Thames and Hudson, 2002. (Monograph)
    • Antliff, M, and Leighten, P. Cubism and Culture. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001. (Monograph)
    • Leighten, P. Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897-1914. Princeton University Press, 1989.

  • Book Sections

    • Leighten, P. "America, with Burk Uzzle." In All About America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle. Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, 2016. (Essay)
    • Leighten, P. "Embattled Cubism: Picasso, Rivera and World War I." In Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016. (Essay)
    • Leighten, P. "Café Scene; Salomé; Head of a Woman; Vase, Gourd and Fruit; Scallop Shells on a Piano; Still Life with Calling Card; and Ace of Clubs." In Picasso and the Allure of Language, edited by SG Fisher. Yale University Press, 2009.
    • Leighten, P. "Réveil anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art." In Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority, edited by E Ruin, J MacPhee, and AK Press. 2007.
    • Antliff, M, and Leighten P, . "Primitive." In Critical Terms for Art History, edited by R Nelson, R Shiff, and UOC Press. 2003.
    • Leighten, P. "Colonialism, l’art nègre, and les Demoiselles d’Avignon." In Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, edited by C Green and Cambridge University Press. 2001. (Chapter)
    • Leighten, P. "Gary Kuehn: Metaphor and Metamorphosis." In Gary Kuehn, 4-21. 1988.

  • Journal Articles

    • Leighten, P. "Anarchist satire in pre-world War i Paris: The case of František Kupka." Sub-Stance 46, no. 2 (January 1, 2017): 50-70.  Full Text
    • Leighten, P. "The world turned upside down: Modernism and anarchist strategies of inversion in L'assiette au beurre." Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 4, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 133-170.  Full Text
    • Leighten, P. "Modernist Abstraction, Anarchist Antimilitarism, and War." Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies (January 2012).
    • Leighten, P. "Artists in Times of War: Response to Ariel Dorfman’s 'Picasso’s Closet'." Art Bulletin (March 2009).
    • Leighten P, . "Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art by Patricia Mathews." Modernism/modernity 8 (April 2001): 369-371. (Review)  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Picasso's century (Comments on Pablo Picasso's The 'Frugal Repast', 'Head of a Sleeping Woman', 'Standing Nude', 'Painter and Model Knitting', and 'Face of Marie-Therese')." QUEENS QUARTERLY 105, no. 2 (1998): 217-227.  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Kees van Dongen: Art, Anarchism, & Audience." Ideas IV/2 (1996): 46-52.
    • Leighten, P. "Reveil Anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art." Modernism/modernity II (April 1995): 17-47.  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Cubist Anachronisms: Ahistoricity, Cryptoformalism, And Business-As-Usual in New York." Oxford Art Journal XVII (October 1994): 91-102.  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Editor's Statement: Revising Cubism." Art Journal 47, no. 4 (December 1988): 269-276.  Full Text
    • Leighten, P. "La Propagande par le rire: Satire and Subversion in Apollinaire, Jarry and Picasso's Collages." Gazette des Beaux-Arts CXII (October 1988): 163-172.
    • Leighten, P. "Clarence John Laughlin: The Art and Thought of an American Surrealist." History of Photography XII (1988): 129-146.
    • Leighten, P. "The Dreams and Lies of Picasso." Arts Magazine LXII, no. 2 (October 1987): 50-55.
    • Leighten, P. "Picasso's Collages and the Threat of War, 1912-13." The Art Bulletin 67, no. 4 (December 1985): 653-672.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Critical Attitudes toward Overtly Manipulated Photography in the 20th Century, Part II." Art Journal 37, no. 4 (1978): 313-321.  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "Critical Attitudes Towards Overtly Manipulated Photography in the 20th Century, Part I." Art Journal 37, no. 2 (December 1977): 133-138.  Link to Item
    • Leighten, P. "DeCarava at the Witkin." Photograph I (1977): 14 and 28-.
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  Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances

  • All About America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle | Guest Curator at Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina 2016
  • Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections | at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2013
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Exhibits

    • All About America: The Photographs of Burk Uzzle. Curator. 2016
    • Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections. Curator. 2013
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism. International Workshop: Anarchism in Culture. Re-assessing the Influence of a Manifold Libertarian Concept on European Modernity (1820s-1930s). German Historical Institute. September 2016  2016
  • Embattled Cubism: Picasso, Rivera and World War I. Barnes Foundation. April 10, 2016  2016
  • Ethics and the ‘Decisive Moment’: The Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's Anarchist Individualism. Annual meeting. Modernist Studies Association. November 2015  2015
  • The Secret Life of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History. Vanderbilt University. November 6, 2014  2014
  • Picasso and His Times. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. March 29, 2014  2014
  • A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism. Symposium: 'Ideas that Bind: Approaches to Modernist Groups and Networks'. History of Art Department, York University (UK). July 12, 2013  2013
  • Modernism, Antimilitarism and World War I. Conference series: 'Under the Sign of Amadeo'. Art History Institute, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). July 12, 2013  2013
  • Picasso and His Times. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. April 30, 2012  2012
  • “From Mutual Aid to Radical Individualism: Neoimpressionism and Fauvism in Light of Anarchist Aesthetic Theory". Symposium: Pissarro's Politics in Context: Anarchism and the Arts in France, 1849-1900. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. September 10, 2011  2011
  • Resistance Begins at Home: Anticolonialism andVisual Culture. Annual meeting. College Art Association. February 2011  2011
  • Modernism, Antimilitarism and War (and podcast). Keynote. Modernist Studies Association. November 11, 2010  2010
  • A 'Rationale of Ugliness': Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience, 1908-13. Norma U. Lifton Memorial Lecture in Art History. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. October 1, 2010  2010
  • May Ray, Cubism and Primitivism. University of New Mexico Art Museum. April 6, 2010  2010
  • Expatriates and Exiles. UAAC Annual Conference. December 6, 2008  2008
  • Symposium: Modernism and Antimodernism: Theories, Visions, Ideologies, Politics, National Museum of Romanian Literature and the Amfiteatru Foundation. December 6, 2008  2008
  • A ‘Rationale of Ugliness’: Primitivism, Cubism and Its Audience. University of Iowa. February 8, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Juror : National Humanities Center. 2013  2013
  • Art Bulletin. 2012  2012
  • Reader's Report. December 17, 2011  2011
  • Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure. December 17, 2011  2011
  • Session co-chair, with Marco Deyasi : College Art Association Annual Meeting. February 10, 2011  2011
  • University of California Press, referee. December 16, 2010  2010
  • Juror : ACLS. 2009  2009
  • Outside Evaluator : Hobart and William Smith Colleges, promotion. 2009  2009
  • UAAC Annual conference, Toronto, Session Co-organizer with Mark Cheetham and Mark Antliff : 'Modernist Expatriates'. 2008  2008

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