Allan Antliff

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Dr. Allan Antliff holds the Canada Research Chair in Art History at the University of Victoria. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern and contemporary art with a focus on the United States, Canada, and Europe. Graduate seminars include “20th-Century Anarchism and Avant-Garde Art”; “New York Dada”; and “American Modernism Between the Wars”. In addition to teaching art history he is an art critic, curator, and art editor at the UK-based journal, Anarchist Studies.

His current research focuses on American anarchism, contemporary art, and anarchist studies. He is a member of the Victoria Anarchist Reading Circle and the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair collective.

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• Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007.
• Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.
• Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. University of Chicago Press, 2001 (reprint, 2008).
• “Anarchy in Art: Strategies of Dissidence,” Anarchist Studies. 11 no. 1 (2003): 66-83.
• “Art/Politics/Subterfuge,” Mix Magazine. 27 no. 4 (2002): 29-31.
• “Egoist Cyborgs,” The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture, ed. Bruce Grenville, exh. cat. Vancouver Art Gallery (2002): 101-113.
• “Cosmic Modernism: Elie Nadelman, Adolf Wolff, and the Materialist Aesthetics of John Weichsel,” Archives of American Art Journal. 38 no. 3 (Winter, 2000): 20-29.
• “Interpellating Modernity: Cubism and 'La Vie Unanime' in America,” American Modernism Across the Arts, eds. Jay Bochner and Justin Edwards, Peter Lang Publishers, 1999.