Moroccan Modernism
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Moroccan Modernism

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Moroccan Modernism

About this book

This groundbreaking study of Moroccan modernism in the visual arts contextualizes the work in terms of postcolonial struggles and a constellation of contemporary artistic movements.

In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca École des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco. Their visual arts activism was displayed at their iconic outdoor exhibition in the Djemaa al-Fna plaza in Marrakech, in their collaborations with the cultural and political journal Souffles, through their radical anticolonial pedagogy, and through their use of abstraction to expand the horizons of postcolonial national culture.

In Moroccan Modernism, Holiday Powers argues that the pedagogy and transnational solidarities of this generation of artists were intrinsic to their broader artistic projects. She advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in Pan-Africanism and Pan-Arabism, the transnational anticolonial intellectual movements that defined the era.

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Information

Publisher
Ohio University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780821425817
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1. Prehistories of Modernism in Morocco
  11. Chapter 2. Cosmopolitanism and Moroccan Artistic Modernism: Mapping the Foundations Abroad
  12. Chapter 3. Staging Modernism in Deux mille ans d’art au Maroc and the Rencontre internationale
  13. Chapter 4. Localizing Modernism in Morocco: The Casablanca École des beaux-arts
  14. Chapter 5. The Politics of Culture: Public Engagement during the Years of Lead
  15. Chapter 6. Third Worldism and Solidarity
  16. Chapter 7. Art as Politics: Palestine and the Aftermath of the Six-Day War
  17. Chapter 8. Opening toward the Arab World: Art Production and Pan-Arabism
  18. Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Casablanca School: The Lasting Impacts of Moroccan Modernism Today
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index