Art on My Mind
Visual Politics
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- Published: 8 May 2025
- ISBN: 9781802066968
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
[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
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
Passionate and highly personal
Publishers Weekly
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 Angelou