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“PROXIMITIES displays the admirable insights of Linda Brooks' lifework (so far). It ranges from fond but revealing images of family and unexpected portraits of clothes, to a wonderful series of teenagers, including their own comments. These casual, intimate and penetrating portraits of people in place would in some hands would be boringly conventional. Brooks' feminist focus endows them with a new and illuminating life.”

— LUCY R. LIPPARD, author, art critic, activist, curator

“The volume arrived and I am completely mesmerized. Somehow, it is both so lucid and concrete and extremely moving. Feels like a memoir of our generation — shaped in that 70s 80s moment of feminism and punching at the academy’s walls — a time now so maligned and misunderstood.”

— ATINA GROSSMANN, Professor of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union, New York

“PROXIMITIES—a beautifully designed publication with outstanding essays—documents the transformative power of Linda Brooks's art and life as a teacher and activist. Readers see and feel history and Brooks's art unfold over time through compelling images, interactive texts with her subjects, and reading lists for each decade. Buy it, share it, learn from it!”

–DAVID E. LITTLE, John Wieland 1958 Director and Chief Curator, Mead Art Museum| Amherst College

“PROXIMITIES really presents a clear and cogent view of Linda Brooks’s art and interests. I especially appreciate the bibliography for each decade and that it's prominently displayed at the beginning of each chapter. It speaks to the strong intellectual content of Brooks’s work. And the photos themselves are testaments to her strong aesthetic.”

–PATRICIA OLSON, Director, Women's Art Institute, Professor Emerita, Department of Art and Art History, St. Catherine University