Beauty in the age of empire Japan, Egypt, and the global history of aesthetic education
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780231549288 0231549288 |