African Art in Motion

African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520038448

African Art in Motion

African Art in Motion
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 902
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520324633

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Flash of the Spirit

Flash of the Spirit
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010-05-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0307874338

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.

The Art Museum as Educator

The Art Museum as Educator
Author: Barbara Y. Newsom
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 2255
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520309537

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

In Motion

In Motion
Author: Howard Dodson
Publisher: National Geographic
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

An illustrated chronicle of the migrations--forced and voluntary--into, out of, and within the United States that have created the current black population.

Aesthetic of the Cool

Aesthetic of the Cool
Author: Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher: Periscope
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Aesthetics, Black
ISBN: 9781934772959

Essays on the African heritage in the art and music of the Americas.