Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-05-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0307874338


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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.


Flash of the Spirit
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Robert Farris Thompson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-26 - Publisher: Vintage

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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, soci
Flash of the Spirit
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Robert Farris Thompson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-08-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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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, soci
Flash of the Spirit
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Robert Farris Thompson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-08-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants.
African Art in Motion
Language: en
Pages: 902
Authors: Robert Farris Thompson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m
The Four Moments of the Sun
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Robert Farris Thompson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher:

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