Name: Art on My Mind
Rating: 3.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9781565842632

bell hooks

Author addresses the deplorable absence of discourse on black artists.

Visual Politics

Art on My Mind

karla

I hunger for those days […] when i thought of art only as […] the free world of color where all was possible. I was in paradise.

Irinh l. Mnh-ha makes this useful point: "Liberation opens up new relationships of power, which have to be controlled by practices of liberty.”

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love ‘There must be a revolution in the way we see, the way we look' In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics. hooks shares her own experience of the transformative power of art whilst exploring topics ranging from art in education and the home to the politics of space and imagination as a revolutionary tool. She positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be empowering within the Black community. Speaking with artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Alison Saar, and examining the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Art on My Mind is a generous and expansive body of work that has become increasingly relevant since it was first published in 1995. Here is an essential tool for understanding the contemporary moment, and a fundamental text for any reader concerned with making and sustaining a democratic artistic culture.

Love Bell Hooks down! This book is a really good introduction into her way of thinking and writing. There’s a beautifully charming way she interacts with moments of real life and how she forms those into philosophical conversations. Also fascinating to get to know the circle of artists she surrounds herself with, the artistic exchange between different mediums. 

Art on My Mind Visual Politics

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