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9780822383307

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In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of "sacred" 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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

18 mars 2002

EAN13

9780822383307

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

AN AESTHETIC OCCUPATION

The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conﬂict

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Durham and London

2002

A N A E S T H E T I C O C C U PAT I O N

Daniel Bertrand Monk

©2002 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan Typeset in Quadraat by G & S Typesetters, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Le Yael. Ki ge’ulati hi.

IMMEDIACY:THE QUALITY

OR CONDITION OF BEING

IMMEDIATE; FREEDOM

FROM INTERMEDIATE OR

INTERVENING AGENCY;

DIRECT RELATION OR

CONNECTION; DIRECTNESS

PA R T I 1

PA R T I I 2 3 4

PA R T I I I 5 6

PA R T I V

Abbreviationsix Glossaryxi Note on Transliterationxiii Prefacexv

Introduction:The Foundation Stone of Our National Existence, without Exaggeration 1

S T O N E A Hieroglyph Designed by God 17

CONTENTS

T I L E An Unmistakable Sign 33 You are Blind to the Meaning of the Dome of the Rock 45 Cataclysm and Pogrom: An Exergue on the Naming of Violence 73

PA P E R Sir Alfred Mond’s After-Dinner Eloquence 83 Designs on Our Holy Places 99

C E L L U L O I D Conclusion:A Terrible Caricature 129

Notes133 Bibliography197 Index229

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