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Allan W. Antliff is an
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
activist,
art critic
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, 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.
Career
Since 2003 Antliff has held the
Canada Research Chair
Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Program goals
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in Art History at the
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...
, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern and contemporary art.
His research interests include
dada
Dada () or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centres in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich), Cabaret Voltaire (in 1916). New York Dada began c. 1915, and after 192 ...
,
contemporary art
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, 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
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, Antliff co-edits the ''
Alternative Press Review'', serves as art editor for ''
Anarchist Studies
''Anarchist Studies'' is a biannual academic journal on anarchism. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining the history, culture, and theory of anarchism. The journal was established in 1993 and is edited by Ruth Kinna and published by L ...
'', 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).
He also is the Director of the Anarchist Archive at the University of Victoria as well.
Selected publications
* ''Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology''.
Arsenal Pulp Press
Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non-fiction, focusing primarily on underrepresented genres such as und ...
(2004) .
* ''Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde''.
University of Chicago Press
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(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
Further reading
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External links
Academic profilePersonal website
Retrieved 2 December 2013.
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1957 births
Living people
American anarchists
American art critics
American art historians
American male non-fiction writers
Anarchist writers
Anarcho-communists
Canada Research Chairs
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