Nicholas Mirzoeff: The Right to Look

Cover: 9780822349181 | The Right to Look | A Counterhistory of Visuality | Nicholas Mirzoeff

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface. Ineluctable Visualities xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction. The Right to Look, or, How to Think With and Against Visuality 1
Visualizing Visuality 35

1. Oversight: The Ordering of Slavery 48

2. The Modern Imaginary: Anti-Slavery Revolutions and the Right to Existence 77
Puerto Rican Counterpoint I 117

3. Visuality: Authority and War 123

4. Abolition Realism: Reality, Realisms, and Revolution 155
Puerto Rican Counterpoint II 188

5. Imperial Visuality and Countervisuality, Ancient and Modern 196

6. Anti-Fascist Neorealisms: North-South and the Permanent Battle for Algiers 232
Mexican-Spanish Counterpoint 271

7. Global Counterinsurgency and the Crisis of Visuality 277

Notes 311

Bibliography 343

Index 373

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Kunstgeschichte
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822349181
ISBN-10:	0822349183
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	241 x 159 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Nicholas Mirzoeff
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2011
Gewicht:	0,655 kg