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

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Embattled Cubism: Picasso, Rivera and World War I

Book section · 2016 Featured Publication Exhibition catalog ... 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

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

Patricia Leighten

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William James, Anarchism, and the Picasso-Stein Circle