Flash of the Spirit

African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy

von Robert Farris Thompson

317 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kunst Themen und Techniken Kunstgeschichte
• ISBN: 9780394723693
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.1984
• Größe: 205 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group