Main entry:

Erets. Ḥalav. Devash. English

Title & Author:

Land. Milk. Honey : animal stories in imagined landscapes / written and edited by Rachel Gottesman, Tamar Novick, Iddo Ginat, Dan Hasson, Yonatan Cohen.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books ; Tel Aviv : Nine Lives Press, [2021]

Description:

388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm

Notes:
Issued concurrently in Hebrew as Erets. Ḥalav. Devash.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th Biennale of Architecture.
Original concept based on Tamar Novick's doctoral dissertation, 2014.
Published on the occassion of an exhibition held at the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-384).
Includes some Arabic.
Translation of: Erets. Ḥalav. Devash. Tel Aviv : Teshaʻ neshamot ; Zurich : Park books, [2021] 9789659046911 (OCoLC)1255177354

Summary:

A unique documentation of how ideology translated into colonialism, settlement, urbanization, infrastructure, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment of Palestine-Israel. The biblical metaphor of a "Land of Milk and Honey" has denoted for millennia a prophecy and promise for plenitude. This book, published in conjunction with the Israeli Pavilion at the seventeenth International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, examines the reciprocal relations between humans, animals, and the environment within the context of modern Palestine-Israel, and demonstrates how this promise has become an action-plan over the course of the twentieth century. Land. Milk. Honey investigates how colonialism, urbanization, and mechanized agriculture radically reshaped the environment and altered human-animal relationships. It shows how the celebrated metamorphosis of the region into a prosperous agricultural landscape was entangled with irreparable damage to the environment, as well as the disruption of human communities. And it highlights the predicaments that both the environment and its inhabitants are facing after the territory has, over a century, been the testbed of modernist aspirations for plenitude. The fundamental changes the region has undergone are portrayed through the stories of five local animals: cow, goat, honeybee, water buffalo, and bat. These case-studies and analysis construct a spatial history of a place in five acts: Mechanization, Territory, Cohabitation, Extinction, and the Post-Human. A rich collection of literary excerpts, historical documents, archival photos, as well as short original vignettes reveals the story of this remarkable transfiguration and redesign.--University of Chicago website.

ISBN:

9783038602477 (paperback)
3038602477
3938602473
9783938602478

Subject:

Architecture Israel Exhibitions.
Architecture Palestine Exhibitions.
Animals Israel History Exhibitions.
Animals Palestine History Exhibitions.
Photographie de la nature Israël Expositions.
Architecture Israël Expositions.
Architecture Palestine Expositions.
Animals
Architecture
Architecture and society
Agriculture Israel
Architecture Israel
Architecture and society Israel
Animals Israel History
Architecture Palestine.
Architecture and society Palestine.
Animals Palestine History.
Israel
Middle East Palestine
Israel Environmental conditions

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
History
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gottesman, Rachel, author, editor.
Novick, Tamar, author, editor.
Ginat, Iddo, author, editor.
Hasson, Dan, author, editor.
Cohen, Yonatan, author, editor.
Gottesman, Rachel writer of supplementary textual content, editor.
Novick, Tamar writer of supplementary textual content, editor.
Ginat, Iddo writer of supplementary textual content, editor.
Hasson, Dan writer of supplementary textual content, editor.
Cohen, Yonatan writer of supplementary textual content, editor.
International Architectural Exhibition (17th : 2021 : Venice, Italy). Israeli Pavilion,
International Architectural Exhibition (17th : 2020 : Venice, Italy)
Israel Tel Aviv.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 310135
Call No.: BIB 255254
Status: Available