“Anarchist Nominalism: Bergson, Art and Ideology”

Mark Antliff is Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Duke University's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. His work has been supported by many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Paul Mellon Centre/London. He is the author of multiple books, including Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939, and, most recently, Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde. His latest scholarly project is entitled Radical Pacifism and Aesthetics in the Crucible of War: 1936-1950.

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