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Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco
Katarzyna Pieprzak
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Description for Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBM; AC; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble. In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national museum space for modern art, and postmodern exhibit spaces in Morocco, Katarzyna Pieprzak focuses on the role that art plays in the social fabric of a modernizing Morocco. She argues that the decay of colonial and national institutions of culture has invited ... Read more
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble. In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national museum space for modern art, and postmodern exhibit spaces in Morocco, Katarzyna Pieprzak focuses on the role that art plays in the social fabric of a modernizing Morocco. She argues that the decay of colonial and national institutions of culture has invited ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665198
SKU
V9780816665198
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About Katarzyna Pieprzak
Katarzyna Pieprzak is associate professor of French and comparative literature at Williams College.
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