The World Turned Upside Down:Modernism and Anarchist Strategies of Inversion in L'Assiette au Beurre

Patricia Leighten is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University and received her PhD from Rutgers University. Her field of research is late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century art and politics. She has held fellowships from the Getty, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, and Institute for Advanced Study. Author of Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and Anarchism, 1897–1914 (1989) and most recently The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris (2013), she has also co-authored, with Mark Antliff, Cubism and Culture (2001), and A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 (2008). She is currently working on a major exhibition project on cubism with Mark Antliff for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario (2016).