Decorative arts of the Tunisian École : fabrications of modernism, gender, and power / Jessica Gerschultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerschultz, Jessica, 1976- author.

Series:

Refiguring modernism ; 30.

Refiguring modernism ; 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decorative arts--Tunisia--Tunis--History--20th century.

Decorative arts.

Art schools--Tunisia--Tunis--History--20th century.

Art schools.

Women artists--Tunisia--Tunis--History--20th century.

Women artists.

Feminism and art--Tunisia--Tunis--History--20th century.

Feminism and art.

Tunisia--Tunis.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]

Summary:

""Examines the gendering of tapestry and decorative arts in mid-twentieth-century Tunis, with a focus on how collaborations across art schools destabilized the boundary between art and craft as women gained entry into ateliers and workshops previously dominated by men. Explores how art and feminism were entwined with socialist modernizing projects in Tunisia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Bourguibism and the modern artist : the decorative arts as "civilizing discipline"

Early decorative programs : the art-artisanal boundary and the one percent law

The new école of Safia Farhat : féminisme d'état and women artists

The metamorphic potential of looms

Dramatizing gender and labor : decorative programs of the 1960s

A Penelopean poetics (the decorative, rewoven).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271083186

0271083182

OCLC:

1108806829

Publisher Number:

16567140