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Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
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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.

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Title The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
Author Nicholas Mirzoeff
Binding Paperback
Edition First edition
Pages 408
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Duke University Press, Durham,
Publication date 2011-10-10
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780822349181 / 0822349183
Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
Category Art & Art Instruction
Library of Congress subjects Mass media - Political aspects, Visual communication - Political aspects
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011027508
Dewey Decimal Code 302.222

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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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