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White SightVisual Politics and Practices of Whiteness
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Nicholas Mirzoeff

White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of "white sight" has a history. By understanding that white sight was not always common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from…

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Come vedere il mondoUn'introduzione alle immagini: dall'autoritratto al selfi…
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Nicholas Mirzoeff

Che il potere delle immagini sia cresciuto a dismisura è sotto gli occhi di tutti. Con l'avvento dei nuovi media, la loro produzione è cresciuta vertiginosamente e la loro circolazione è così pervasiva da scandire ogni momento della nostra vita. Solo negli Stati Uniti ogni due minuti vengono scattate più fotografie di quante se ne siano realizzate nell'intero XIX secolo, e ogni mese vengon…

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The Right to LookA Counterhistory of Visuality
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Nicholas Mirzoeff

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 …

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Silent PoetryDeafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
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Nicholas Mirzoeff

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and gr…

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9780691194509
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