Main entry:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021, author, interviewer.

Title & Author:

Art on my mind : visual politics / bell hooks.

Publication:

New York : The New Press, [1995]
©1995

Description:

xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Art matters -- Art on my mind -- The poetics of soul: art for everyone -- Talking art with Alison Saar -- Altars of sacrifice: re-membering Basquiat -- Subversive beauty: new modes of contestation -- In our glory: photography and Black life -- Diasporic landscapes of longing -- Talking art with Carrie Mae Weems -- Facing difference: the Black female body -- Talking art as the spirit moves us -- Critical genealogies: writing Black art -- Beauty laid bare: aesthetics in the ordinary -- Women artists: the creative process -- Being the subject of art -- Workers for artistic freedom -- Black vernacular: architecture as cultural practice -- Architecture in Black life: talking space with LaVerne Wells-Bowie -- Aesthetic interventions -- Straighten up and fly right: talking art with Emma Amos -- Intervening printmakers: talking art with Margo Humphreys -- Representing the Black male body -- The radiance of red: blood works.

Summary:

"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. For this collection, hooks has written thirteen new pieces, which complement her authoritative essays on Lorna Simpson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Featured among the new pieces are interviews with and critiques of the works of Alison Saar, Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, LaVerne Wells-Bowie and Margo Humphreys, as well as essays on photography, architecture, and the representation of black male bodies." -- From back cover.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781565842632 (paperback)
1565842634 (paperback)

Subject:

hooks, bell, 1952-2021 Aesthetics.
hooks, bell, 1952-2021 Philosophy.
Saar, Alison Interviews.
Weems, Carrie Mae, 1953- Interviews.
Wells-Bowie, LaVerne Interviews.
Amos, Emma, 1937-2020 Interviews.
Humphrey, Margo Interviews.
Hooks, Bell Philosophy.
Hooks, Bell Philosophie.
hooks, bell, 1952-2021
hooks, bell, 1952- Philosophy.
Hooks, Bell, 1952-.
African American art Political aspects.
African American aesthetics.
African American artists Social conditions.
Women artists Social conditions.
African American women artists Social conditions.
Art noir américain Aspect politique.
Esthétique noire américaine.
20.07 art criticism, art review.
Aesthetics
Philosophy
Kunst.
Politieke aspecten.

Form/genre:

Essay
essays.
Art criticism
Essays
Essais.
Critiques d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308276
Call No.: BIB 253701
Status: Available