The modern school as a global archive -- Music education and the uses of aesthetics -- Writing education and the location of aesthetics -- The mimetic moment : the age of global mimesis and representational mimesis -- The end of global mimesis : the rise of the national subject -- The end of representational mimesis: the rise of the individual subject. "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"-- | 
Beauty in the age of empire [0,21 mb]