Description: A group of artists who worked together as faculty at the Casablanca École des Beaux-Arts from approximately 1956 to 1978 collectively produced works that were key vectors in Moroccan modernism, which the author locates in relation to postcoloniality.
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"Morocco's distinctive historical composition and its location have led to the development of its art in ways that speak to African, Amazigh, Arab, and European frameworks of modernity. Holiday Powers investigates modernism in Morocco as a national and transnational project framed by cosmopolitan experiences and Third World and Arab nationalist debates. This deeply researched and persuasively argued study will undoubtedly establish itself as a definitive reference work on the subject."--Iftikhar Dadi, author of Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia