Description: "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 i
Brief description: Jessica Gerschultz is Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas.
Review Quotes:
"It is a fascinating book that provides an opportunity to consider Tunisian modernism, perhaps for many readers for the first time. What it also does, for the attentive reader at least, is return us to the categories we thought we knew, to challenge them, to reconsider what they might mean and how they are represented in our own writing. That may not be its core subject but neither is it secondary; it's embedded in its narrative. This is a book that questions how art history has been and is being written, and so must we all."
--Beth Williamson Art History