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Acknowledgements
We are extremely grateful to Zamân Books and Curating for providing images for us to use in this section, some of which are being published here for the first time. These photographs will be published and fully contextualized in the forthcoming volume, CASA: Casablanca Art School Archives, edited by Maud Houssais and Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa (Paris: Zamân Books, 2020).
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Notes
1 Marrakech Biennale 6, Not New Now, from February 24 to May 8, 2016. Main exhibition curated by Reem Fadda, assistant curators Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa and Salma Lahlou.
2 Even though the school was set up in the early 1920s, it did not open officially until 1951. See Hamid Irbouh, Art in the Service of Colonialism, French Art Education in Morocco, 1912-1956 (New York: Tauris, 2005), 17 and 222.
3 Ibid., 27-68.
4 Ibid., 8-13
5 Mohamed Melehi, interview, Casablanca, February 2019, unreferenced document.
6 Toni Maraini, “Réflexions autour d’un cours d’histoire de l’art,” Ecrits sur l’art (Casablanca: Editions Le Fennec, 2014), 268. See also Maud Houssais, “Débris modestes. Trois présences plastiques dans l’espace public marocain” Zamân 7 (Spring 2017): 11-37.
7 This is the same carpet that appeared on the cover of the first issue of Maghreb Art, published in 1965.
8 Maraini, “Réflexions," 268. See also Toni Maraini, “Mémoires métissées. Le paradigme antique,” Insaniyat: Revue algérienne d'anthropologie et de sciences sociales 32–33 (2006): 25–38, http://journals.openedition.org/insaniyat/3303 (accessed August 13, 2019).
9 Bert Flint, “La dynamique de l’art du tissage au Maroc”, in Tapis et tissages ruraux marocains et oeuvres de Teresa Lanceta, exhibition catalogue (September 28, 2000 to January 27, 2001) Villa des arts, Fondation ONA, Casablanca.
10 Nadia Chabâa, “Chabâa’s Concept of the ‘3 A’s,”’ Bauhaus Imaginista: Learning from, Rabat, http://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/2430/chabaa-s-concept-of-the-3-as?0bbf55ceffc3073699d40c945ada9faf=lgevfjjllu15gcahasq1b25b84 (accessed August 13, 2019).
11 See Bert Flint, La culture afro-berbère de tradition néolithique saharienne en Afrique du Nord et dans les pays du Sahel (Marrakech: Editions Jardin Majorelle, 2018).
12 Toni Maraini, “The Bauhaus and Morocco,” Bauhaus Imaginista: Learning from, Rabat, http://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/256/the-bauhaus-and-morocco (accessed August 13, 2019).
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Salma Lahlou
Salma Lahlou is a Morocco-based independent curator and cultural project manager. She graduated in both Curatorial Studies and Law. After working as the Vice President of the National Foundation of Museums of the Kingdom of Morocco, she founded ThinkArt, an organization working in the fields of visual arts and curatorial practices, in 2015. She has curated several exhibitions, including one on the Bauhaus and the Casablanca School of Fine Arts part of The Whole World a Bauhaus at the ZKM, Germany in 2019, one on The Casablanca School of Fine Arts and the making of Art History during the sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale (2016), as well as In the Carpet/Über den Teppich which was shown at the ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany (2016). Translated by Sue Brownbridge.