Marcia Lippman: Sacred Encounters East and West

by bell hooks, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

These photographs invite the viewer to take part in a stunning journey of spirit and imagination. Lippmann's eye dwells affectionately on the sensuous and lyrical, distilling time and memory through meditative attention to hidden details which transport, expand and enrapture as do the best music and poetry. Culled from years of solitary travel into largely-unmapped territory, this book stirs the soul and awakens the heart in its celebration of East and West, beauty and sexuality, ritual and ceremony, flesh and stone, life and death - the common threads in the human tapestry.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2000

About the author

bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern female perspective, she addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.