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Patricia Leighten

Professor Emerita of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Duke University, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Provincial Paris, Cosmopolitan Cubism

Book section · 2023 Featured Publication Cite

Anarchist Modernism after Signac: Fauvism, Futurism, Cubism

Book section · 2020 Featured Publication Cite

Félix Fénéon’s Anarchist Avant-Gardism

Book section · 2020 Featured Publication 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

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 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

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

Primitive

Book section · 2003 Cite