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Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power

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Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies , Volume 16 (3) – Nov 1, 2020

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Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
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1552-5864
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1558-9579
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10.1215/15525864-8637437
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/16/3/326/829279/326rahnama.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École: Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power Jessica Gerschultz University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019 272 pages. ISBN 9780271082186 Reviewed by SARA RAHNAMA Jessica Gerschultz’s Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École maps out a matrix in which highbrow art, artisanal production, and the state worked together to elevate the decorative arts in postindependence Tunisia. At the center of this matrix was a new generation of young Tunisian women who could be integrated into Tunisian society through a modernized version of the artisanal work of their mothers and grandmothers, espe- cially weaving. Anglophone scholars have devoted considerable attention to the “civilizing mission,” which offered the ideological rationale for France’s colonial projects. Less attention has been paid to how postindependence regimes took up some of the same imperatives, directed toward their own populations. Gerschultz examines these dynamics. This world of state-supported art and artisanry faced both inward at Tunisian society and outward to the broader region. The École de Tunis was initially founded to put Tunis on the map of the European art world and to foster collaboration among predom- inantly European artists

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Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2020

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