Patricia Leighten

Professor Emerita of Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Art, Art History & Visual Studies

patricia.leighten@duke.edu

Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766

114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Duke University, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708

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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

William James, Anarchism, and the Picasso-Stein Circle

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

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

Journal article SubStance · 2017 Featured Publication Full text 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

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

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

Kees van Dongen: Art, Anarchism, & Audience

Journal article Ideas · 1996 Cite

Reveil Anarchiste: Salon Painting, Political Satire, Modernist Art

Journal article Modernism/modernity · April 1995 Link to item Cite

Cubist Anachronisms: Ahistoricity, Cryptoformalism, And Business-As-Usual in New York

Journal article Oxford Art Journal · October 1994 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

The White Peril and L'Art negre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism

Journal article The Art Bulletin · December 1990 Full text Cite

Editor’s Statement: Revising Cubism

Journal article Art Journal · December 1, 1988 Full text Cite

La Propagande par le rire: Satire and Subversion in Apollinaire, Jarry and Picasso's Collages

Journal article Gazette des Beaux-Arts · October 1988 Cite

Clarence John Laughlin: The Art and Thought of an American Surrealist

Journal article History of Photography · 1988 Cite

The Dreams and Lies of Picasso

Journal article Arts Magazine · October 1987 Cite

Picasso's Collages and the Threat of War, 1912-13

Journal article The Art Bulletin · December 1985 Full text Link to item Cite

Critical Attitudes toward Overtly Manipulated Photography in the 20th Century, Part II

Journal article Art Journal · 1978 Link to item Cite

Critical Attitudes Towards Overtly Manipulated Photography in the 20th Century, Part I

Journal article Art Journal · December 1977 Link to item Cite

DeCarava at the Witkin

Journal article Photograph · 1977 Cite