An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict

by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Daniel Bertand Monk

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328143
• ISBN13: 9780822328148
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"