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Seinfeld by Nicholas Mirzoeff 9781844572014
Booksplease Price: £28.23This is a reflective, funny account of one of the most popular tv sitcoms ever made. Nicholas Mirzoeff situates Seinfeld as an expression of Clinton-era America, from its consistently ironic take on... -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video... -
An Introduction to Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visible.Outlines three currently successful tactics of visual activism: removal of statues and monuments; restitution of cultural... -
Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book explores body images in visual culture, from revolutionary France to contemporary New York. It engages with artists' use of different kinds of body images in painting, sculpture,... -
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff 9780822348955
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.10In 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... -
White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047678Author Nicholas MirzoeffFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint < -
The Visual Culture Reader Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University) 9780415782623
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £66.79Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It... -
Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews by Nicholas Mirzoeff 9780415166706
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This is the first book to examine the connections between diaspora - the movement, whether forced or voluntary, of a nation or group of people from one homeland to another - and its representations... -
Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media. Mirzoeff shows how the... -
To See In the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7 Nicholas Mirzoeff 9780745351155
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.77To see Palestine is to see the world. Since October 7th 2023, the forces of racial capitalism, settler colonialism and white supremacy have become all too visible in Israel's war on Gaza. Urban,... -
Stiliagi and Soviet Masculinities, 1945–2010: Fashion as Dissent Alla Myzelev 9781526182197
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.50This book provides an in-depth analysis of the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's pioneering youth subculture from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. Characterized by their distinctive Western-influenced... -
The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self Marco Bohr 9780367592202
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that... -
Who Owns Beauty? Benedicte Savoy 9781509568611
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose... -
"Defects": Engendering the Modern Body by Helen Elizabeth Deutsch 9780472066988
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £26.08"Defects" brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of notions of sexual difference. Women, declared a... -
The Architecture of Aftermath by Terry Smith 9780226764689
Booksplease Price: £116.95The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no... -
After Extinction by Richard Grusin 9781517902896
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection... -
The Architecture of Aftermath by Terry Smith 9780226764696
Booksplease Price: £43.85The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no... -
Planet TV: A Global Television Reader by Lisa Parks 9780814766910
Booksplease Price: £91.37From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from representations of... -
Planet TV: A Global Television Reader by Lisa Parks 9780814766927
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from representations of... -
Community Safety in the Fourth World War Manuel Callahan 9780745351513
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86We are living through what the Zapatistas call the 'Fourth World War'-a war waged by the forces of colonialism and racial capitalism-that insists we forget our victories, relinquish our practices of... -
Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting by Dan Hicks 9781804950005
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable... -
#iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life by Negar Mottahedeh
Booksplease Price: £12.58The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the world by storm. As the Green Revolution gained protestors in the Iranian streets, #iranelection became the first... -
India's Biennale Effect: A politics of contemporary art by Robert E. D'Souza 9780367177355
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical... -
Archaeology and Photography: Time, Objectivity and Archive Lesley McFadyen 9781032239514
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status... -
Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Sunil Manghani 9781841501901
Booksplease Price: £29.42Taking the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key marker in recent history - a period in which increasingly we find ourselves watching 'instant history' unfold live on air - the book presents a new... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.56New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of...