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May 13, 2008
Allan Antliff Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780226021041)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.46

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Allan Antliff’s study of the relations between American art and what he identifies as anarchist beliefs and political activity between 1908 and the end of World War I is a fascinating and important contribution to a knowledge of the wider circumstances of artistic production in the United States during this period. In a historical narrative connected solidly to thematic analyses, Antliff deals alternatively with organizations of varying kinds as well as with individual artists that,...