Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

bell hooks

ISBN 10: 1565842634 / ISBN 13: 9781565842632

Published by The New Press, 1995

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Inscribed by hooks on half-title page. Cover is lightly rubbed, with sticker residue on back, but text and images are clear and bright. Binding is tight. Other than author's ink inscription, inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1148882

Bibliographic Details

Title: Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

Publisher: The New Press

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very good

Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

bell hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she has chosen the lower case pen name bell hooks, based on the names of her mother and grandmother, to emphasize the importance of the substance of her writing as opposed to who she is. A writer and critic, hooks is the author of more than thirty books, many of which have focused on issues of social class, race, and gender. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain’t I a Woman, the dialogue Breaking Bread (with Cornel West), the children’s book Happy to Be Nappy, the memoir Bone Black, and Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (The New Press). She lives in Berea, Kentucky.