Art on My Mind - Visual Politics

''If one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to make art, then the work of subjugation, of colonization, is complete. Such work can be undone only by acts of reclamation.''

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.<>

Product details

• Authors: Bell Hooks, HOOKS BELL
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.12.2024
• EAN: 9780241711491
• ISBN: 978-0-241-71149-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art; Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, Individual artists, art monographs, Political science and theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Other graphic or visual art forms, Landscape architecture and design, Theory of architecture, Relating to African American / Black American people