Seeing is Believing?: Defining Metavisuality
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
Race and Culture on Display From fifteenth-century Venetian depictions of Muslims to Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Pacific Islanders to a recent CNN story exhorting the benefits of “see[ing] India through the eyes and lenses of Instagram users,” visual frameworks have often been constructed and utilized to organize and understand peoples and cultures around the world.3 They have, in turn, become geopolitical sites for gauging a nation’s degree of civility and progress. In the case of a fictional fairgoer
Original Publication Citation
“Seeing is Believing?: Defining Metavisuality,” co-written with Constance Chen, in Amerasia Journal, eds. Chen and Rod-ari, 2017, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press: 9-21.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Rodari, Melody, "Seeing is Believing?: Defining Metavisuality" (2017). Art & Art History Faculty Works. 38.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/artarhs_fac/38
