Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco by Katarzyna Pieprza

Description: Imagined Museums by Katarzyna Pieprzak 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Imagined MuseumsIn this first cultural history of modern Moroccan art and its museums, Pieprzak goes beyond the investigation of national institutions to treat the history and evolution of multiple museums-from official state and corporate exhibition spaces to informal, popular, street-level art and performance spaces-as cultural architectures that both enshrine the past and look to the future. Author Biography Katarzyna Pieprzak is associate professor of French and comparative literature at Williams College. Table of Contents Note on Translation and Transliteration, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Entering the Museum, I. Monumental Sites of Discourse: National Museums, Corporate Collections, and Cabinets of Curiosity, 1. Degeneration and Decay in the National Museum: Useful and Useless Memory in Modern Morocco, 2. Marketplace Museums: Art and Citizenship in Corporate Morocco, 3. A Private Cabinet of Curiosity: The Belghazi Museum and Its Politics of Nostalgia, II. Tactical Architectures of Art: Discursive, Ephemeral, and Nomadic Museums, 4. Imaginary Museums and Their Real Phantoms: Exorcising Monumental Discourse, 5. Taking Art to the Streets: The Ephemeral Outdoor Museum as Contact Zone Conclusion: Rethinking the Museum in Morocco, Notes, Bibliography, Index Long Description 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 the rethinking of the museum and generated countermuseums to stage new narratives of art, memory, and modernity. Through these spaces she explores a range of questions: How is modernity imagined locally? How are claims to modernity articulated? How is Moroccan modernity challenged globally? In this first cultural history of modern Moroccan art and its museums, Pieprzak goes beyond the investigation of national institutions to treat the history and evolution of multiple museums--from official state and corporate exhibition spaces to informal, popular, street-level art and performance spaces--as cultural architectures that both enshrine the past and look to the future. Details ISBN0816665192 Author Katarzyna Pieprzak Short Title IMAGINED MUSEUMS Publisher University of Minnesota Press Language English ISBN-10 0816665192 ISBN-13 9780816665198 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Subtitle Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco Country of Publication United States Illustrations 17 b&w illustrations Place of Publication Minnesota Publication Date 2010-02-12 UK Release Date 2010-02-12 NZ Release Date 2010-02-12 US Release Date 2010-02-12 Pages 280 Alternative 9780816665181 DEWEY 069.0964 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-04-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:100951872;

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