The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the...
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Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
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The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Mirzoeff, Nicholas

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

Dhs. 252.67

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

Dhs. 252.67
Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff develops a comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, the field that he helped to create and shape. Casting modernity as an ongoing contest between visuality and countervisuality, or "the right to look," he explains how visuality sutures authority to power and renders the association natural. An early-nineteenth-century concept, meaning the visualization of history, visuality has been central to the legitimization of Western hegemony. Mirzoeff identifies three "complexes of visuality"-plantation slavery, imperialism, and the present-day military-industrial complex-and explains how, within each, power is made to seem self-evident through techniques of classification, separation, and aestheticization. At the same time, he shows how each complex of visuality has been countered-by the enslaved, the colonized, and opponents of war, all of whom assert autonomy from authority by claiming the right to look. Encompassing the Caribbean plantation and the Haitian revolution, anticolonialism in the South Pacific, antifascism in Italy and Algeria, and the contemporary global counterinsurgency, The Right to Look is a work of astonishing geographic, temporal, and conceptual reach.

Author: Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/10/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.35w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780822349181


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012

About the Author

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of several books, including An Introduction to Visual Culture, Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture, and Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews, as well as the editor of The Visual Culture Reader.


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