Beauty in the age of empire : Japan, Egypt, and the global history of aesthetic education / Raja Adal.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

xvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

English

September 24, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.