Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, EyeMinded reveals Jones’s role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices.
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.
: ill.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. Jones - Abstract expressionism : the missing link - Norman Lewis : The Black paintings 2011 21st century 20th century Type Books Physical description xi, 515 p. 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. Free jazz and the price of Black musical abstraction / Guthrie P. : what's wrong with this picture - Blues to the future - Them there eyes : on connections and the visual : commentary / Guthrie P. 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. Object Details Author Jones, Kellie 1959- Baraka, Amiri 1934- Contents Eyeminded : commentary / Amiri Baraka - Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / Amiri Baraka - A.K.A. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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