The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

Book Overview

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"