Flash of the Spirit
Title | Flash of the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2010-05-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0307874338 |
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
Title | Flash of the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1984-08-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0394723694 |
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
Title | Flash of the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1984-08-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants.
Flash of the Spirit
Title | Flash of the Spirit PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1984-08-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0394723694 |
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.
African Art in Motion
Title | African Art in Motion PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 902 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520324633 |
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 minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
The Four Moments of the Sun
Title | The Four Moments of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Aesthetic of the Cool
Title | Aesthetic of the Cool PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Farris Thompson |
Publisher | Periscope |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Aesthetics, Black |
ISBN | 9781934772959 |
Essays on the African heritage in the art and music of the Americas.