Art on My Mind

In an art world obsessed with identity politics, Art on My Mind is a long-overdue rescue of the liberating, rather than confining, power of art

In an art world obsessed with identity politics, Art on My Mind is a long-overdue rescue of the liberating, rather than confining, power of art

Sharp and persuasive

When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens

Passionate and highly personal

[ Art on My Mind ] is a guide to the ways that political meaning and esthetic pleasure may be discovered, bound together, in many works by contemporary artists of color

[hooks] brings a welcome clarity to such issues as received art and the development of a Western canon

As erudite and sophisticated as hooks is, she is also eminently readable, even exhilarating

bell hooks (1952-2021) was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist and writer. Celebrated as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than seventeen books, including The New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; and Communion: The Female Search for Love , as well as the landmark memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.