Allan Antliff

Summary

Allan W. Antliff (born 1957) is an anarchist activist, art critic, author and founding member of the Toronto Anarchist Free School (now Anarchist U) who has written extensively on the topics of anarchism and art in North America since the 1980s.[1][2][3]

Career edit

Since 2003 Antliff has held the Canada Research Chair in Art History at the University of Victoria, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern and contemporary art.[4] His research interests include dada, contemporary art, anarchist history and political theory, and his 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, Antliff co-edits the Alternative Press Review, serves as art editor for Anarchist Studies, edited the volume Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (1998) and has written two scholarly books; Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde (2001) and Art and Anarchy: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2007).[5][6]

He also is the Director of the Anarchist Archive at the University of Victoria as well.[4]

Selected publications edit

  • Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology. Arsenal Pulp Press (2004) ISBN 1-55152-167-9.
  • Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde. University of Chicago Press (2001).
  • Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Arsenal Pulp Press (1998).
  • 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.

References edit

  1. ^ "anarchism: left for dead amid the carnage". Not Bored!. January 16, 2003. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  2. ^ "Allan W. Antliff". Canada Research Chairs. Archived from the original on 2006-10-07. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  3. ^ "Allan Antliff". Hachette. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Allan Antliff". University of Victoria. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  5. ^ MacDonald, Murdo (2002). "Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde". Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History. 7. Archived from the original on 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  6. ^ Roslak, Robyn (2002-03-22). "Allan Antliff. Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde". Utopian Studies. Society for Utopian Studies. Retrieved 2008-12-02.

Further reading edit

  • Hawthorn, Tom (2008-12-10). "Treasuring the West Coast's anarchic history". The Globe and Mail.

External links edit

  • Academic profile
  • Personal website Retrieved 2 December 2013.