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Dr. Mark Antliff is Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Department at Duke University. His publications include Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (1993); Cubism and Culture (co-authored with Patricia Leighten) (2001); Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art and Culture in France (2007); and Sculptors Against the State: Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde (2021) His article Why War? Debating Pacifism during the Spanish Civil War is free to read in the November 2025 issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.