Robert Farris Thompson
Robert Farris Thompson (December 30, 1932 – November 29, 2021) was an American art historian and writer who specialized in Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world. He was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1965 to his retirement more than fifty years later and served as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art. Thompson coined the term "black Atlantic" in his 1983 book ''Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy'' – the expanded subject of Paul Gilroy's book ''The Black Atlantic''.He lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history. He was affiliated with the University of Ibadan and frequented Yoruba village communities. Thompson studied the African arts of the diaspora in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and several Caribbean islands. Provided by Wikipedia
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African art in motion : icon and act / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Black gods and kings : Yoruba art at UCLA. by Thompson, Robert Farris
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African art in motion : icon and act in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Flash of the spirit : African and Afro-American art and philosophy / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Black gods and kings : Yoruba art at UCLA / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Flash of the spirit : African and Afro-American art and philosophy / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Tango : the art history of love / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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The four moments of the sun : Kongo art in two worlds / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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Face of the gods : art and altars of Africa and the African Americas / by Thompson, Robert Farris
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The art of William Edmondson / by Edmondson, William, 1882?-1951
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Bibliography of Yoruba sculpture / by Cole, Herbert M.
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Art from Africa : long steps never broke a back / by McClusky, Pamela
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In search of ancient kings : Egúngún in Brazil / by Willson, Brian
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Mbuti design : paintings by Pygmy women of the Ituri forest / by Meurant, Georges, 1948-
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Divine inspiration : from Benin to Bahia /
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Darker, ever darker, deeper, always deeper : the journey of Tim Whiten / by Whiten, Tim, 1941-
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Basquiat and the Bayou presented by the Helis Foundation / by Sirmans, Franklin
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