Nicholas Mirzoeff

Nicholas Mirzoeff (2012)

Nicholas David Mirzoeff (born 1962 ) is a British-American art historian and scholar of visual culture .

Life

Nicholas Mirzoeff studied art history from 1980 to 1983 at Balliol College and from 1983 to 1986 at the University of Warwick , where he received his doctorate in 1990 with the dissertation Pictorial Form and Social Order in France 1638-1752: L'Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture . He taught in Warwick, 1991 at the University of California, Irvine , from 1992 to 1997 as Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and 1997/98 as Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He then worked as a professor of art and comparative literature at Stony Brook University until 2004 . Since then he has been a professor in the "Department of Media, Culture, and Communication" at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University .

Fonts (selection)

• The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality . Duke University Press, 2011
• Seinfeld: A Critical Study of the Series . British Film Institute , 2007
• Watching Babylon: the War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture . New York: Routledge, 2005
• (Ed.): Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews . New York: Routledge, 2001
• An Introduction to Visual Culture . New York: Routledge, 1999
• (Ed.): The Visual Culture Reader . New York: Routledge, 1998, 2002²
• Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure . New York: Routledge 1995
• Silent Poetry: deafness, sign and visual culture in modern France . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Mirzoeff  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Nicholas Mirzoeff in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Nicholas Mirzoeff , blog Culture in a Time of War

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicholas Mirzoeff , at NYU