Title Eyeminded : living and writing contemporary art / Kellie Jones ; with contributions by Amiri Baraka [and others]

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 515 pages) : illustrations Contents Eyeminded : commentary / Amiri Baraka -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka -- A.K.A. Saartjie : The Hottentot Venus in context (some reflections and a dialogue), 1998/2004 -- Tracey Rose : postapartheid playground -- (Un)seen and overheard : pictures by Lorna Simpson -- Life's little necessities : installations by women in the 1990s -- Interview with Kcho -- The structure of myth and the potency of magic -- Seeing through : commentary / Hettie Jones -- In the eye of the beholder / Hettie Jones -- To/from Los Angeles with Betye Saar -- Crown jewels -- Dawoud Bey : portraits in the theater of desire -- Pat Ward Williams : photography and social/personal history -- Interview with Howardena Pindell -- Eye-minded : Martin Puryear -- Large as life : contemporary photography -- An interview with David Hammons -- Excuse me while I kiss the sky & then fly and touch down : commentary / Lisa Jones -- How I invented multiculturalism / Lisa Jones -- Lost in translation : Jean-Michel in the (re)mix -- In the thick of it : David Hammons and hair culture in the 1970s -- Domestic prayer -- Critical curators: interview with Kellie Jones -- Poets of a new style of speak : Cuban artists of this generation -- In their own image -- Tim Rollins and K.O.S. : what's wrong with this picture -- Blues to the future -- Them there eyes : on connections and the visual : commentary / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- Free jazz and the price of Black musical abstraction / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- To the max : energy and experimentation -- It's not enough to say "Black is beautiful" : abstraction at the Whitney 1969-1974 -- Black West : thoughts on art in Los Angeles -- Brothers and sisters -- Bill T. Jones -- Abstract expressionism : the missing link -- Norman Lewis : The Black paintings Summary A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kellie Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers in Manhattan's East Village and absorbed in black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, EyeMinded reveals Jones's role in bringing attention to the work of African America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Art, Modern -- 21st century. Art, American -- 20th century. African American art. African American artists. ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) ART / American / African American African American art African American artists Art, American Art, Modern Art, Modern -- 20th century. Form Electronic book Author Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 LC no. 2010049724 ISBN 9780822393498 0822393492

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