Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art

Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art - Paperback

$34.20
$34.20
Skip to product information
Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art
  • Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art
Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art - Paperback

Drawing Us in: How We Experience Visual Art - Paperback

$34.20
$34.20

Book Overview

by Hilton Als (Foreword by)

With Contributions by Dorothy Allison, John Berger, Mark Doty, Mary Gordon, bell hooks, Alfred Kazin, August Wilson, and others

For the contributors to Drawing Us In, visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us. Dorothy Allison explains how a painting in a Baptist church taught her as a child that art connects people from disparate backgrounds. Alfred Kazin reflects on his wanderings around New York's museums as a teenager. Mary Gordon finds that Bonnard's still lifes put in perspective her mother's struggle with illness and aging.

For anyone who has felt moved by the visual, this collection offers a delightful range of views on how and why art matters in our psychic, social, and political lives.
ISBN9780807066072
PublisherBeacon Press
GenreArts and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages152
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Art History Nonfiction

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

You may also like