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 * Paper Magazine *Sharp and persuasive * The New York Times Book Review *When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens – Maya AngelouPassionate and highly personal * Publishers Weekly *[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 * Art America *[hooks] brings a welcome clarity to such issues as received art and the development of a Western canon * San Francisco Examiner *As erudite and sophisticated as hooks is, she is also eminently readable, even exhilarating * Booklist *

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.