![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When you’re a kid you think the whole world is like your world. “When I went off to college, I was kind of surprised that people didn’t know living artists.“Every generation is part of its world, every generation of artists responds to the world they live in.”.Because here are I am with all these people in high school, but also, I grew up on the Lower East Side, and I grew up around a lot of artists … so I thought, ‘this is wrong.’” But I asked myself, ‘why are all the people of color very ancient?’ They’re Egyptians, they’re Aztecs, but after that you don’t see people, and I thought this was wrong. ![]() Now, of course, this was many years ago, in the 1970s. Now you’re sitting in a diverse New York City school, you know what that looks like … but nobody was in the … history books. “I went to a public high school … in the art history classes there, what I notice is that all the people of color were ancient.Here are some highlights from Jones’s comments during our conversation: Her book, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), is a collection of essays and writing by family members (including her parents, Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka) that explores the contours of diasporic history, the challenges of recording art history, and in-depth considerations of many important artists, including Puryear, Simpson, Dawoud Bey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Betye Saar, and Pat Ward Williams. ![]()
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