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Beauty in the age of empire : Japan, Egypt, and the global history of aesthetic education / Raja Adal
VerfasserAdal, Raja
ErschienenNew York : Columbia University Press, 2019
Umfangxvii, 268 Seiten
Anmerkung
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Columbia studies in international and global history
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
SchlagwörterArts / Study and teaching (Primary) / Japan / Arts / Study and teaching (Primary) / Egypt / Arts in education
ISBN978-0-231-19116-6
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Zusammenfassung
The modern school as a global archive -- Music education and the uses of aesthetics -- Writing education and the location of aesthetics -- The mimetic moment : the age of global mimesis and representational mimesis -- The end of global mimesis : the rise of the national subject -- The end of representational mimesis: the rise of the individual subject.
Zusammenfassung
"When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. By the middle of the twentieth century, art education was a permanent part of Japanese and Egyptian primary schooling. Both countries taught music and drawing, and wartime Japan also taught calligraphy. Why did art education become a core feature of schooling in societies as distant as Japan and Egypt, and how is aesthetics entangled with nationalism, colonialism, and empire"--