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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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Hilton Als is a well-known theater critic, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize recipient, and theater critic for The New Yorker magazine. In 2000, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and has since written for several publications including The Village Voice, Vibe, and New York Review of Books. His published works include The Women and White Girls. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and he lives in New York City.
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