Nicholas Mirzoeff

An Introduction to Visual Culture (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible. In this view, visual culture is a practice: a way of doing, making, and seeing.

The 12 new chapters begin with five foundational concepts, including Indigenous ways of seeing, visual activism in the wake of slavery, and unfixing the gaze. The second section outlines three currently successful tactics of visual activism: removal of statues and monuments; restitution of cultural property; and practices of repair and reparations. The final section addresses catastrophe and trauma, from Palestine's Nakba to the climate disaster and the intersections of plague and war. Each section also includes new, in-depth case studies called "Visualizations," ranging from oil painting to Kongo power figures and the mediated practice of taking a knee.

Engaging with questions of racializing, colonialism, and undoing gender throughout, this edition maps the activist turn in the field since 2014 and sets directions for its future expansion. This is a key text in visual culture studies and an essential resource for research and teaching in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000891584
• Artikelnr.: 67876124

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Mirzoeff is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Sight Becomes Vision: From al-Haytham to Perspective 2. '1492': Expulsions, Expropriations, Encounters 3. Slavery, Modernity and Visual Culture 4. Panoptic Modernity 5. Imperial Transcultures: From Kongo to Congo 6. Sexuality Disrupts: Measuring the Silences 7. Inventing the West 8. Decolonizing Vision 9. Discrete States: Digital Worlds From the Difference Engine to Web 2.0 10. The Death of 'The Death of Photography' 11. Celebrity: From Imperial Monarchy to Reality TV 12. Watching War.

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Introduction Visualization 1: Perspective, Visuality and the Way of Seeing
Part 1. Foundational 1.Acknowledgement and Groundwork 2. Indigenous Ways of
Seeing 3. In Slavery's Wake 4.Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance
5.Unfixing the Gaze Visualization 2: The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein
Visualization 3: The Decisive Moment and The Limits of Looking Part 2.
Tactics of Visual Activism 6. Removal 7.Restitution 8. Repair and
Reparations Visualization 4: Power Figures: Minkisi Nkondi Part 3.
Catastrophe 9. Nakba 10. The Climate {R}evolution 11. Plague and War
Visualization 5: Taking a Knee

Rezensionen

"Nicholas Mirzoeff's new synthesis of visual culture study is a tour-de-force comparative reading that begins where most comprehensive books in the field leave off, with globalization. If, as Mirzoeff tells us in his scintillating style, visuality has alienated vision from its users, then this lively and impassioned account is certain to put readers right at the heart of the problem with a spectrum of examples through which to work it through." - Lisa Cartwright, Professor of Communication and Science Studies, University of California at San Diego, USA

"In this updated and expanded second edition of his provocative An Introduction to Visual Culture, Nicholas Mirzoeff takes us on a momentous journey through visual culture to our own network society. As a careful historian and dextrous theorist, by interweaving modalities of visuality, the author tracks a path - sometimes utopian, more often dystopian - in search of a possibility just beyond our grasp: the dream of transculture as the sign of our democratic politics. For Mirzoeff, such a journey is only feasible by way of the interdisciplinary field of Visual Culture Studies where visual culture is understood as the study of 'the place of visuality in the division of the sensible'. He is right." - Marquard Smith, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Visual Culture, and Principal Lecturer in Visual Culture Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK