A rich thoughtprovoking collection of essays critiques and interviews from the influential author of Aint I a Woman and All About LoveThere must be a revolution in the way we see the way we lookIn a collection of essays critiques and interviews bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics. hooks shares her own experience of the transformative power of art whilst exploring topics ranging from art in education and the home to the politics of space and imagination as a revolutionary tool. She positions her writings on visual politics within the everpresent question of how art can be empowering within the Black community.Speaking with artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Alison Saar and examining the work of JeanMichel Basquiat and Felix GonzalezTorres Art on My Mind is a generous and expansive body of work that has become increasingly relevant since it was first published in 1995.