Nicholas Mirzoeff Books
How to see the world
"In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images--from Velázquez's Las Meninas to the iconic “Blue Marble”--to contextualize...
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Silent poetry
This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philosophes to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how...
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Violence
By George Yancy, Adrian Parr, Christopher Alden, Henry A. Giroux, Brad Evans, Michael J. Shapiro, Zygmunt Bauman, Cary Wolfe, Jake Chapman, Allen Feldman, Jack Halberstram, Richard J. Bernstein, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Simon Critchley, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Neo Muyanga, Oliver Stone, John Akomfrah, Tom McCarthy, Natasha Lennard, Alfredo Jaar, Gottfried Helnwein, David Theo Goldberg, Erin Manning, Mickey Mod, Elaine Scarry, Brian Massumi, Bracha L. Ettinger, Simona Forti, Moira Weigel
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The appearance of Black Lives Matter
An intertextual conversation between artist Carl Pope and writer Nicholas Mirzoeff on the issues surrounding Ferguson, Baltimore and the activism of Black Lives Matter.
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