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A review by babywren
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by bell hooks
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Some of my favourite sections from the book:
- Art on my Mind
- In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life
- Talking Art with Carrie Mae Weems
- Aesthetic Interventions
- The Radiance of Red: Blood Works
This was a great read for anyone interested in the art world, and was both affirming and challenging in the ideas bell hooks presented.
I found the interviews really engaging, but I personally struggled with the very didactic language and sentence structure in some of the essays, and found myself going back over the same sentence two or three times to really grasp what it was saying. I kept getting so frustrated by this, and it certainly felt like it became a block for my desire to read further.
I also found the placement/selection of some of the artworks within the essays strange - some weren't cited at all, or were referenced pages later so I had to flip back to see the image being referenced.
- Art on my Mind
- In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life
- Talking Art with Carrie Mae Weems
- Aesthetic Interventions
- The Radiance of Red: Blood Works
This was a great read for anyone interested in the art world, and was both affirming and challenging in the ideas bell hooks presented.
I found the interviews really engaging, but I personally struggled with the very didactic language and sentence structure in some of the essays, and found myself going back over the same sentence two or three times to really grasp what it was saying. I kept getting so frustrated by this, and it certainly felt like it became a block for my desire to read further.
I also found the placement/selection of some of the artworks within the essays strange - some weren't cited at all, or were referenced pages later so I had to flip back to see the image being referenced.