Title: Drawing us in : essays on how we experience visual art /
Authors: Chasman, Deborah.; Chiang, Edna.
Publisher: Beacon Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Art; Experience.; Visual perception.; Imagery (Psychology).
Abstract: "What do we gain from visual art and what do we stand to lose without it?" "For many of the contributors, visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us. There are other perspectives too: critic Dave Hickey claims that art has no deep moral purpose, and that the artist should not have to work under the burden. Art, he writes, is just a whole lot of fun and therein lies its revolutionary potential. For anyone who has felt moved by the visual, this collection offers a range of views on how and why art matters in our psychic, social, and political lives."--Jacket.
Contents: A theft in Norway / Peter Schjeldahl -- On Romare Bearden / August Wilson -- This is our world / Dorothy Allison -- The art city our fathers built / Alfred Kazin -- Still life : notes on Pierre Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday / Mary Gordon -- Portraits and dreams : photographs and stories by children of the Appalachians / Wendy Ewald -- The art of seeing / Jed Perl -- Why abstract painting still matters / Laurie Fendrich -- Doubletake : the diary of a relationship with an image / Lucy R. Lippard -- Art and the discourse of nations / Arthur C. Danto -- Art is for everybody / bell hooks -- Y : the art critic / Jennifer Belle -- Frivolity and unction / Dave Hickey -- To take paper, to draw : a world through lines / John Berger -- The Panorama Mesdag / Mark Doty.