1. Black Saints Go Marching In: Yoruba Art and Culture in the
Americas
2. The Sign of the Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art and Religion
in the Americas
3. The Rara of the Universe: Vodun Religion and Art in Haiti
4. Round Houses and Rhythmized Textiles: Mande-Related Art and
Architecture in the Americas
5. Emblems of Prowess: Ejagham Art and Writing in Two Worlds
Robert Farris Thompson is the author of, among other works,Black Gods and Kings,African Art in Motion,andFlash of the Spirit.He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow and has mounted major exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He is Col. John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, where he is also Master of Timothy Dwight College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
"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." -- 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.
"A wonderfully enthusiastic book...Mr. Thompson is a professor of
art history, but he takes his subject in the round, not in any
specialized or compartmentalized manner. 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."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"Centuries of racist assumptions go packing it in Flash of the
Spirit." -- The Village Voice
"This is art history to dance by." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
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