Allan Antliff Views
Allan Antliff holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at the University of Victoria. He specializes in the history of modern art, contemporary art, and anarchist studies. He is art editor for the UK-based journal Anarchist Studies and has published numerous art reviews and feature articles in journals such as Canadian Art Magazine, Fuse, C Magazine, and Galleries West. Active in the North American anarchist movement since the 1980s, he was a founding member of the Toronto Anarchist Free School (now Anarchist U) and contributor to The Fifth Estate, Anarchy Magazine, Ye Drunken Sailor, and other publications. Before entering academia in 1999 he worked as news and issues editor at the collectively owned biweekly newspaper, Between the Lines. Currently, he is a member of the Victoria Anarchist Reading Circle, the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective, and the Black Raven publishing collective.
Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Art History at the University of Victoria, is author of Anarchy and Art From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2007), Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde (2001) and editor of Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004).
Allan Antliff is the author of Art and Anarchy: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007) and Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde (University of Chicago Press), and editor of Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (Arsenal Pulp Press). He has written extensively for the anarchist press in North America. He teaches in the History in Art department at the University of Victoria, where he is the Canada Research Chair in Modern Art.
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