Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

By bell hooks

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565842634
• ISBN13: 9781565842632
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks

hooks challenges all who reads this book find the importance in their own histories. She makes the reader aware of the lack of representation of African American artists as well as the lack of representation of minorities and women in art history. She looks at more than just the injustice of the whole system but also the importance of images in peoples lives. hooks has a very refreshing style of writing in that she is not afraid to allow the reader to enter her personal life. I felt as if I were involved in a personal conversation with her.