The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

Building on her previous work, Leighten provides a revisionist account which insists on understanding the political intention of artists and the specificity of historical moments, countering a number of still-prevalent misconceptions about the construction and constitutions of modernism as 'discrete-isms', detached from political positions and cultural contexts, and rigidified in hierarchical orders.