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Flash Of the Spirit:african & afro-american art & Philosophy
[Paperback - 1984]
robert farris thompson
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Category: Art
Sub-category: Eastern Art
Additional Category: Sociology - Anthropology
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780394723693 | Pages: 336
Shipping Weight: .318 | Dimensions: 5.2 x .7 x 8 inches

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This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

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Robert Farris Thompson is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor at Yale University’s History of Art Department. He specializes in African and African-American art and has published extensively on the topic. Rene Ricard was an artist, poet, and art critic credited with launching the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat in a 1981 issue of Artforum. He was a fixture of New York’s art world from his arrival there in 1965 to his death in 2014.

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