Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson

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

Robert Farris Thompson

317 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective slow-paced

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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, idiog...

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