Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco 1912-1956

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

Irbouh, Hamid

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Colonial History, Book 2

Art HistoryCrafts GeneralGeneral Education

ISBN10: 185043851X
ISBN13: 9781850438519
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 1 2005
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Art in the Service of Colonialism throws new light on how nothing in the Moroccan French Protectorate (1912-1956) escaped the imprints of metropolitan ideology and how the French transformed and dominated Moroccan society by looking at how the arts and crafts were transformed in the colonial period. Hamid Irbouh argues that during the Moroccan Protectorate (1912-1956), the French imposed their domination through a systematic modernisation and regulation of local arts and crafts. They also stewarded Moroccans into industrial life by establishing vocational and fine arts schools. The French archives, Arabic sources, and oral testimonies, which Irbouh used, demonstrate complex relationships between colonial administrators of both genders and their interactions with Moroccan officials, notables, and the poor. The French co-opted some locals into joining these educational institutions, which respected and reinforced familiar pre-Protectorate social structures. The artisans become The Best Workers in the French Empire, and artists exhibited abroad and cultivated a European and American clientele.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Education

View All