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

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Author / Creator:Gerschultz, Jessica, 1976- author.
Imprint:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press [2019]
©2019
Description:xxii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 10 cm.
Language:English
Series:Refiguring modernism
Refiguring modernism.
Subject:Decorative arts -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- History -- 20th century.
Art schools -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- History -- 20th century.
Women artists -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism and art -- Tunisia -- Tunis -- History -- 20th century.
Art schools.
Decorative arts.
Feminism and art.
Women artists.
Tunisia -- Tunis.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12318297
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ISBN:9780271083186
0271083182
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--