The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Published 2011 · 385 pages · 105,875 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality to read?
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality scores 75 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 78 out of 100
- Dense visual-culture and postcolonial vocabulary, much of it coined.
- Sentence structure: 75 out of 100
- Long, heavily qualified academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Visuality itself as the object of a counterhistory.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Three centuries of material and theory together.
How The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality is regarded
The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality holds a literary regard score of 50 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.