Monk Daniel Bertrand Monk

Aesthetic Occupation (eBook, PDF)

The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

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Produktbeschreibung

In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "e;sacred"e; architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era-the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. While examining the relation between monuments and mass violence in this context, he documents Palestinian, Zionist, and British attempts to advance competing arguments concerning architecture's utility to politics.Succumbing neither to the view that monuments are autonomous figures onto which political meaning has been projected, nor to the obverse claim that in Jerusalem shrines are immediate manifestations of the political, Monk traces the reciprocal history of both these positions as well as describes how opponents in the conflict debated and theorized their own participation in its self-representation. Analyzing controversies over the authenticity of holy sites, the restorations of the Dome of the Rock, and the discourse of accusation following the Buraq, or Wailing Wall, riots of 1929, Monk discloses for the first time that, as combatants looked to architecture and invoked the transparency of their own historical situation, they simultaneously advanced-and normalized-the conflict's inability to account for itself.This balanced and unique study will appeal to anyone interested in Israel or Zionism, the Palestinians, the Middle East conflict, Jerusalem, or its monuments. Scholars of architecture, political theory, and religion, as well as cultural and critical studies will also be informed by its arguments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822383307
• Artikelnr.: 54816683

Autorenporträt

Daniel Bertrand Monk

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Glossary
Note on Transliteration
Preface
Introduction: The Foundation Stone of Our National Existence, without
Exaggeration
Part I. Stone
1. A Hieroglyph Designed by God
Part II. Tile
2. An Unmistakable Sign
3. You are Blind to the Meaning of the Dome of the Rock
4. Cataclysm and Pogrom: An Exergue on the Naming of Violence
Part III. Paper
5. Sir Alfred Mond’s After-Dinner Eloquence
6. Designs on Our Holy Places
Part IV. Celluloid
Conclusion: A Terrible Caricature
Notes
Bibliography
Index