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Edition
1st Edition
ISBN
9780394723693
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0394723694
ISBN-13
9780394723693
eBay Product ID (ePID)
889541

Product Key Features

Book Title
Flash of the Spirit : African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1984
Topic
American / African American, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, African, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science
Author
Robert Farris Thompson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Trade
LCCN
83-040298
Reviews
"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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "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
Dewey Decimal
973/.0496
Table Of Content
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
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
E29.N3T48 1984

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