Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bell Hooks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 209,Width 139
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art of indigenous peoples
ISBN/Barcode 9781565842632
ClassificationsDewey:704.0396073
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher The New Press
Imprint The New Press
Publication Date 17 August 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This is a critical response to dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticizing art and aesthetics at a time when the art world is locked in an analysis of identity politics. It is a critique of art and visual politics which addresses the question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community. The book's 13 pieces include essays on photography and the representation of black male bodies. The author's other books include "Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black".

Author Biography

bell hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she has chosen the lower case pen name bell hooks, based on the names of her mother and grandmother, to emphasize the importance of the substance of her writing as opposed to who she is. A writer and critic, hooks is the author of more than thirty books, many of which have focused on issues of social class, race, and gender. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I a Woman, the dialogue Breaking Bread (with Cornel West), the children's book Happy to Be Nappy, and the memoir Bone Black. She lives in Berea, Kentucky.

Reviews

Praise for Art on My Mind: "In an art world obsessed with identity politics, Art on My Mind is a long-overdue rescue of the liberating, rather than confining, power of art." -Paper Magazine "Passionate and highly personal." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Sharp and persuasive." -The New York Times Book Review "[Art on My Mind] is a guide to the ways that political meaning and esthetic pleasure may be discovered, bound together, in many works by contemporary artists of color." -Art America "[hooks] brings a welcome clarity to such issues as received art and the development of a Western canon." -San Francisco Examiner