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"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." -- 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
Art on My Mind
Visual Politics
paperback
$16.00
"As erudite and sophisticated as hooks is, she is also eminently readable, even exhilarating." -- Booklist
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community.
bell hooks is a writer and critic who has taught most recently at Berea College in Kentucky, where she is Distinguished Professor in Residence. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West), the children's book Happy to Be Nappy, and the memoir Bone Black (Holt).
Art / African American Studies
Spring 1995
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 240 pages
978-1-56584-263-2
Spring 1995
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 240 pages
978-1-56584-263-2
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