Art on My Mind (eBook)

Visual Politics

Bell Hooks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
286 Seiten
The New Press (Verlag)
9781620979297 (ISBN)

Infos

The canonical work of cultural criticism by the profoundly influential critic (Artnet), in a beautiful thirtieth-anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by esteemed visual artist Mickalene Thomas Sharp and persuasive. The New York Times Book Review on the original publication of Art on My MindInArt on My Mind, one of the countrys most influential feminist thinkers (Artforum) offers a tender yet potent suite of writings for a world increasingly concerned with art and identity politics. This collection of bell hookss essays, each with art at its center, explores both the obvious and obscure: from ruminations on the fraught representation of Black bodies, to reflections on the creative processes of women artists, to analysis of the use of blood in visual art.bell hooks has been instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists (Artnet), with searing essays complemented by conversations with Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Margo Humphrey, and LaVerne Wells-Bowie. Featuring full-color artwork from giants such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, and Alison Saar,Art on My Mindexamines the way race, sex and class shape who makes art, how it sells and who values it (The New York Times), while questioning how art can be instrumental for Black liberation. In doing so, hooks urges us to unravel the forces of oppression that colonize our imaginations. With a new foreword from acclaimed contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas, this thirtieth-anniversary edition passes the torch to a new generation of artists, capturing hookss simple yet evergreen affirmation: art mattersit is a life force in the struggle for freedom.Art on My Mindis essential reading for anyone looking to find lessons on liberation and creativity in the world of colorthe free world of art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2025
• Vorwort: Mickalene Thomas
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • African American Art • African American art Political aspects • African American Studies • African American women • African American women artists 20th century • Ain't I a Woman • All About Love • Art analysis • Art criticism • Art History • art theory • bell hooks • Bell Hooks Books • Bell Hooks Feminism • Bell Hooks Love • Blaxploitation • Cultural History • Feminism • feminism is for everybody • Feminist art criticism • feminist visual culture • fina arts • intersectional theory • Politics and Art • race and art • the will to change • Visual Culture • women's studies
• ISBN-13: 9781620979297 / 9781620979297