Cultural mandates, artistic missions, and "The Welfare of Palestine," 1876-1948

This dissertation investigates the changing landscape for artistic production in Palestine from the last decades of Ottoman rule until the establishment of the State of Israel (1876-1948). The development of new artistic practices and exhibition spaces occurred against a political backdrop in near constant transition--including the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the First World War, British military and colonial occupation (in the form of the British Mandate from 1920-48), as well as the growth of Arab nationalism and Zionism. Previous scholarship on Palestinian art defines it as a national artistic movement, born out of a state of political disenfranchisement after 1948.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Ari, Nisa.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nasser Rabbat and Caroline A. Jones.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124108

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/124108