Beauty in the Age of Empire - Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education

About the author

Raja Adal (PhD, History, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Theory, Culture, and Society.

Summary

Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western practices were adopted, transformed, and repurposed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic education in modern schools and its role in making a broad spectrum of ideologies from fascism to humanism attractive.

Product details

• Authors: Raja Adal, Raja (Assistant Professor of History) Adal
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2019
• EAN: 9780231191166
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19116-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Japan, Egypt, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, History of art / art & design styles, world history, History of Art, History of Education, Asian History, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt