On Wednesday, May 16 at 6:00 pm the Tamiment Library, Grey Art Gallery,
Department of History, & the Greenwich Village Society for Historic
Preservation will present a slide lecture by Allan Antliff entitled
"Hippolyte Havel and the Politics of Modernism." A book signing of Dr.
Antliff’s _Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American
Avant–Garde_ will follow the talk. The event will be held at the
Tamiment Library (Bobst Library, 10th floor), 70 Washington Square
South, New York, New York 10012.
This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will be
available for purchase at a discount.
Comments on the book:
"Allan Antliff's important book examines the work of anarchist artists
and critics, whose emphasis on freedom and innovation placed them in the
avant–garde of the twentieth–century. Among them were such figures as
Robert Henri, Alfred Steiglitz, and Man Ray, as well as Emma Goldman for
whom anarchism was ‘a natural philosophy of artists.' Treating them and
others with intelligence and insight, Antliff brings a new voice to the
historical discourse, a voice which commands attention and carries
conviction." Paul Avrich
"An excellent chronicle of the impact of anarchism on early
twentieth–century art in America, Anarchist Modernism restores anarchism
to its rightful prominence as a crucial component of the culture of the
time and will now stand as the major consideration of the
interconnectedness of American art and anarchism in this period." Linda
Dalrymple Henderson
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