ebooks China: A History of the Laws; Manners and Customs of the People: 1 (Dover Books on Literature Drama) by John Henry Gray in Arts-Photography

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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 ldquo;the right to look;rdquo; 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 ldquo;complexes of visualityrdquo;mdash;plantation slavery; imperialism; and the present-day military-industrial complexmdash;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 counteredmdash;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.