Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco 1912-1956

by Hamid Irbouh

Book Overview

In the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956), the French established vocational and fine art schools, imposed modern systems of industrial production and pedagogy and reinvented old traditions. Hamid Irbouh argues that the French used this systematic modernisation of local arts and crafts regulation to impose their control. He looks in particular at the role and place of women in the structures of art production and education created by the French-...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780760361
• ISBN13: 9781780760360
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"