Mirzoeff The Right to Look

A Counterhistory of Visuality
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9372-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

This sweeping comparative decolonial framework for visual culture studies, a field the author helped shape, casts modernity as a contest between visuality and countervisuality, or the right to look.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.