This art historical study asks what possibilities individual colonial actors had to influence official colonial policy. In the example of Jerusalem under British rule, it shows how three pro-Arab members of the British administration, all identifying with the International Arts and Crafts Movement,...

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1. Verfasser:	Tönnies, Moya (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Boston BRILL 2024
Ausgabe:	1st ed.
Online-Zugang:	DE-Y3 DE-Y2 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	This art historical study asks what possibilities individual colonial actors had to influence official colonial policy. In the example of Jerusalem under British rule, it shows how three pro-Arab members of the British administration, all identifying with the International Arts and Crafts Movement, used art as a sphere of British colonial anti-Zionist resistance. Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Archives -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Critical Colonialism as Counterpoint to the "War on Palestine" -- 2 Ashbee, Richmond, and Storrs in Scholarly Research -- 3 Three Methodological Revisions -- 4 Critical Colonialism as Counterculture -- Part 1 Prerequisites 1833-1917 -- 1 Discourses on the Demolition of Jerusalem -- 1 Vulnerable Jerusalem -- 2 The Dome of the Rock -- 3 Aesthetic Interest in Loosened Tiles -- 4 The Question of the Byzantine Origins of the Dome of the Rock -- 5 Systematic Knocking Down of the Dome of the Rock's Façade -- 6 Plans for the Reconstruction of the Jewish Temple -- 2 English and Armenian Sensitivity to Middle Eastern Tiles -- 1 Frederick Leighton and William De Morgan -- 2 Mark Sykes and David Ohannessian -- 3 C. R. Ashbee and the Preservation Movement -- 4 Ronald Storrs and the Souls -- 5 The Friendship of Storrs and Ernest Tatham Richmond -- 1 "The Weighing of Souls" -- 2 Somers Clarke's Teaching -- 3 Richmond's House in Zenin -- 4 Maison Storrs -- 5 T. E. Lawrence's and Storrs' Hejaz Stamps -- 6 Gertrude Bell and the Preservation of Baghdad's Architecture -- 6 Early Stages of the Balfour Declaration -- 1 Warnings from the Arab Bureau in Cairo -- 2 Coming to Jerusalem -- 3 Focus on the Haram -- 4 Focus on the Jewish University -- 5 Storrs' Initial Fundraising -- 6 Longing for Harry Cust -- Part 2 Military Rule: "the Plastic Period" 1918-1919 -- 7 Storrs' Early Pro-Arab Advocacy -- 1 Obstructing Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission -- 2 The Visit of the Muslim Orphans' Theatre-Play -- 3 Military Display of Power on the Haram -- 4 Nabi Musa Celebration at the Governorate -- 8 Prohibitive Legislations -- 1 Improvement Acts -- 2 The Public Notice -- 3 The City of Jerusalem Town Planning Scheme.
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ISBN:	9789004703568
DOI:	10.1163/9789004703568