{"product_id":"moroccan-modernism-9780821425800","title":"Moroccan Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e In the years after independence, new art forms and practices flourished at the Casablanca ?cole des beaux-arts, transforming the colonial relic into a wellspring of Moroccan modernism. Casablanca School artists, including Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, and Mohammed Melehi, defined the modernist movement in Morocco. Their visual arts activism was displayed at their iconic outdoor exhibition in the Djemaa al-Fna plaza in Marrakech, in their collaborations with the cultural and political journal \u003ci\u003eSouffles\u003c\/i\u003e, through their radical anticolonial pedagogy, and through their use of abstraction to expand the horizons of postcolonial national culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMoroccan Modernism, \u003c\/i\u003e Holiday Powers argues that the pedagogy and transnational solidarities of this generation of artists were intrinsic to their broader artistic projects. She advances a novel reading of Moroccan modernism that is rooted in its cosmopolitan national context and in Pan-Africanism and Pan-Arabism, the transnational anticolonial intellectual movements that defined the era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoliday Powers\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of art history at VCUarts Qatar. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eNka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eJournal of North African Studies, \u003c\/i\u003eand in numerous book chapters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183551086866,"sku":"9780821425800","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3c94276-596f-40ec-9f35-790f3ab30615.jpg?v=1744469764","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/moroccan-modernism-9780821425800","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}