Flash of the Spirit

African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

By: Robert F Y Thompson, Robert Farris Thompson

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Paperback | 12 August 1984 | Edition Number 1

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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, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

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"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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Introduction	p. xiii
Black Saints Go Marching In: Yoruba Art and Culture in the Americas	p. 1
The Sign of the Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art and Religion in the Americas	p. 101
The Rara of the Universe: Vodun Religion and Art in Haiti	p. 161
Round Houses and Rhythmized Textiles: Mande-Related Art and Architecture in the Americas	p. 193
Emblems of Prowess: Ejagham Art and Writing in Two Worlds	p. 225
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 303
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