Decorative arts of the Tunisian École fabrications of modernism, gender, and power Gerschultz, Jessica 1976- creator author. text bibliography History. pau 2019 2019 monographic eng print xxii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 10 cm. ""Examines the gendering of tapestry and decorative arts in mid-twentieth-century Tunis, with a focus on how collaborations across art schools destabilized the boundary between art and craft as women gained entry into ateliers and workshops previously dominated by men. Explores how art and feminism were entwined with socialist modernizing projects in Tunisia"-- Bourguibism and the modern artist : the decorative arts as "civilizing discipline" -- Early decorative programs : the art-artisanal boundary and the one percent law -- The new école of Safia Farhat : féminisme d'état and women artists -- The metamorphic potential of looms -- Dramatizing gender and labor : decorative programs of the 1960s -- A Penelopean poetics (the decorative, rewoven). Jessica Gerschultz. Includes bibliographical references and index. f-ti--- Decorative arts Tunisia Tunis History 20th century Art schools Tunisia Tunis History 20th century Women artists Tunisia Tunis History 20th century Feminism and art Tunisia Tunis History 20th century Art schools Decorative arts Feminism and art Women artists Tunisia Tunis 1900-1999 fast NK1081.8.T8 G47 2019 745.09611/0904 Refiguring modernism 9780271083186 0271083182 2019021351 pda,print PSt/DLC 190703 20250318220342.7 in00004166040 eng