{"product_id":"art-on-my-mind-visual-politics-by-bell-hooks","title":"Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArt on My Mind, “one of the country’s most influential feminist thinkers“ (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArtforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) offers a tender yet potent suite of writings for a world increasingly concerned with art and identity politics. This collection of bell hooks’s essays, each with art at its center, explores both the obvious and obscure: from ruminations on the fraught representation of Black bodies, to reflections on the creative processes of women artists, to analysis of the use of blood in visual art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebell hooks has been “instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists” (Artnet), with searing essays complemented by conversations with Carrie Mae Weems, Emma Amos, Margo Humphrey, and LaVerne Wells-Bowie. Featuring full-color artwork from giants such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, and Alison Saar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArt on My Mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “examines the way race, sex and class shape who makes art, how it sells and who values it” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), while questioning how art can be instrumental for Black liberation. In doing so, hooks urges us to unravel the forces of oppression that colonize our imaginations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a new foreword from acclaimed contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas, this thirtieth-anniversary edition passes the torch to a new generation of artists, capturing hooks’s simple yet evergreen affirmation: art matters—it is a life force in the struggle for freedom. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eArt on My Mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading for anyone looking to find lessons on liberation and creativity in the world of color—the free world of art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083945107765,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/ArtOnMyMind.jpg?v=1783045098","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/art-on-my-mind-visual-politics-by-bell-hooks","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}