bell hooks

(noun)

Born Gloria Jean Watkins (1952 - ); an American author, feminist, and social activist; known for her focus on the interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender and their ability to perpetuate systems of oppression.

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Examples of bell hooks in the following topics:

  • Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

    • The author bell hooks is widely known for her writing focused on the connection of race, capitalism, and gender and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination.
    • Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
    • The author bell hooks is widely known for her postmodern writing focused on the connection of race, capitalism, and gender.

  • Ceramics and Bronze in the Yayoi Period

    • These people brought with them their knowledge of wetland rice cultivation, the manufacture of copper weapons and bronze bells (dōtaku), and wheel-thrown, kiln-fired ceramics.
    • Yayoi craft specialists also made bronze ceremonial bells, known as dōtaku.

  • Fiber

    • Some of the final products include carpets, hooked rugs, and coverlets.
    • Other fiber art techniques are knitting, rug hooking, felting, braiding or plaiting, macrame, lace making, flocking, and more.

  • Burmese Art

    • By the 11th century, it had assumed a bell-like form, surmounted by a series of increasingly smaller rings placed one on top of the other and rising to a point.
    • It is considered a prototype of Burmese stupas and consisted of a bell-shaped goldleaf-gilded stupa surrounded by smaller temples and shrines.
    • It is marked by a solid, bell-shaped stupa.

  • Norman Stained Glass

    • Perhaps the most famous 12th-century window at Chartres is the so-called Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, found in the first bay of the choir after the south transept.
    • Most windows are made up of around 25–30 individual panels showing distinct episodes within the narrative; only Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière includes a larger image made up of multiple panels.
    • Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière is perhaps the most famous window in Chartres, depicting the Virgin Mary as the throne of wisdom.

  • Maori Art in New Zealand

    • The introduction of metal tools by Europeans allowed more intricacy and delicacy, causing stone and bone fish hooks and other tools to become purely decorative.

  • Cluny

    • Only the southern transept and its bell-tower still exist.

  • Prayers

    • Some outward acts that can accompany prayer include anointing oneself with oil, ringing a bell, burning incense or paper, lighting a candle or candles, facing a specific direction (i.e. towards Mecca or the East), and making the sign of the cross.

  • Photorealism

    • The first generation of American photorealists comprising the art historical movement included such painters as Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechte, and Tom Blackwell.

  • Textiles of the Inca

    • Inca women adorned themselves with a metal fastening for their cloak called a tupu, and the head of their tupu was decorated with paint or silver, gold, or copper bells.