The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

by 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822349183

ISBN13:9780822349181

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Communication & Media Studies Language Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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