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Book SynopsisImagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble.
Table of ContentsNote on Translation and Transliteration, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Entering the Museum, I. Monumental Sites of Discourse: National Museums, Corporate Collections, and Cabinets of Curiosity, 1. Degeneration and Decay in the National Museum: Useful and Useless Memory in Modern Morocco, 2. Marketplace Museums: Art and Citizenship in Corporate Morocco, 3. A Private Cabinet of Curiosity: The Belghazi Museum and Its Politics of Nostalgia, II. Tactical Architectures of Art: Discursive, Ephemeral, and Nomadic Museums, 4. Imaginary Museums and Their Real Phantoms: Exorcising Monumental Discourse, 5. Taking Art to the Streets: The Ephemeral Outdoor Museum as Contact Zone, Conclusion: Rethinking the Museum in Morocco, Notes, Bibliography, Index
