ISBN:
9781000891546
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/7
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Visualization 1 Perspective, Visuality, and the Way of Seeing -- Part I Foundational -- Chapter 1 Acknowledgment and Groundwork -- Chapter 2 Indigenous Ways of Seeing -- Chapter 3 In Slavery's Wake -- Chapter 4 Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance -- Chapter 5 Unfixing the Gaze -- Visualization 2 The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein -- Visualization 3 The Decisive Moment and The Limits of Looking -- Part II Tactics of Visual Activism -- Chapter 6 Removal -- Chapter 7 Restitution -- Chapter 8 Repair and Reparations -- Visualization 4 Power Figures: Minkisi Nkondi -- Part III Catastrophe -- Chapter 9 Nakba -- Chapter 10 The Climate {R}evolution -- Chapter 11 Plague and War -- Visualization 5 Taking a Knee -- Index.
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