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John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he is also Master of Timothy Dwight College. He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and has mounted major exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. The Philadelphia Inquirer About the Author Robert Farris Thompson is the author of, among other works, Black Gods and Kings, African Art in Motion, and Flash of the Spirit. The Village Voice This is art history to dance by. The New York Times Book Review Centuries of racist assumptions go packing it in Flash of the Spirit. He is part anthropologist, part art critic, part musicologist, part student of religion and philosophy, and entirely an enthusiastic partisan of what he writes about. Thompson is a professor of art history, but he takes his subject in the round, not in any specialized or compartmentalized manner. Eugene Genovese 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. Review Quotes Robert Farris Thompson is the art historian of Africa who has turned his talents to Afro-America and sketched the course that creative new work is likely to follow. From the Back Cover This landmark book shows how five African civilization have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil, and other places in the New World. Book Synopsis 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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