Patricia Leighten

Journal article Journal of Avant-Garde Studies · 2025 Featured Publication Historians in the fields of literature and art history have long recognized the profound impact of the philosopher William James on Pablo Picasso’s close allies Leo and Gertrude Stein, and some have acknowledged their possible role in conveying James’s phi ... Cite

Provincial Paris, Cosmopolitan Cubism

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“Kandinsky and Radical Ecology: States of Mind, States of Abstraction"

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Anarchist Modernism after Signac: Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism

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Félix Fénéon’s Anarchist Avant-Gardism

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Le cubisme devant ses contemporains – Documents et critiques (1906-1914)

Book · 2019 Edited anthology of primary documents on Cubism with commentaries by the authors. ... Cite

A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism

Book section · 2019 The importance of anarchism for the Fauvist movement at the start of the twentieth century needs recognition. This paper explores the significance of distinctions within anarchist theory between anarchist-communism (which informed the majority of the Neoim ... Cite

Le Début de l’engagement politique de Picasso: l’anarchisme et le modernisme en Espagne et en France (1897-1914)

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Anarchist satire in pre-world War I Paris: The case of František Kupka

Journal article SubStance · 2017 Featured Publication Full text Cite

America, with Burk Uzzle

Book section · 2016 Exhibition catalog ... Cite

Embattled Cubism: Picasso, Rivera and World War I

Book section · 2016 Featured Publication Exhibition catalog ... Cite

The White Peril: Colonialism, L'art negre, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

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Vision and Invention: Photographs from the Collection

Artistic production · 2014 Exhibition, fall 2014, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University ... Cite

The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Book · 2013 Featured Publication A study of art and anarchist politics in early 20th-century Paris, considering the variety of ways politicized art fostered the development of modernist idioms. The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profo ... Cite

The World Turned Upside Down: Modernism and Anarchist Strategies of Inversion in ’L’Assiette au beurre’

Journal article Journal of Modern Periodical Studies · 2013 Cite

The white peril and l’art nègre picasso, primitivism, and anticolonialism

Book section · January 1, 2013 Yet the modernists did not extend this social criticism to a radical critique of the reductive view of Africans that was promoted for colonial justification. Instead, they embraced a deeply romanticized view of African culture (conflating many cultures int ... Full text Cite

Modernist Abstraction, Anarchist Antimilitarism, and War

Journal article Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies · December 2011 Cite

Artists in Times of War: Response to Ariel Dorfman’s 'Picasso’s Closet'

Journal article Art Bulletin · March 2009 Cite

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

Book section · 2009 Essays in exhibition catalogue for exhibition ’Picasso and the Allure of Language’, Yale University Art Gallery, spring 2009, and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, fall 2009. ... Cite

A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914

Book · 2008 Featured Publication An anthology of newly translated, unabridged primary documents, several newly discovered, with interpretive essays preceding each document and with an introduction outlining the present state of the literature in Cubism studies. ... Cite

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')

Journal article QUEENS QUARTERLY · 1998 Link to item Cite