Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy

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.

Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 08/12/1984
Pages: 317
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780394723693
ISBN10: 0394723694
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
- Art | African

About the Author
Robert Farris Thompson is the author of, among other works, Black Gods and Kings, African Art in Motion, and Flash 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.