Drawing Us In: How We Experience Visual Art (Beacon Anthology)

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 havent 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 Yorks museums as a teenager. Mary Gordon finds that Bonnards still lifes put in perspective her mothers 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.