About the Author

Robert Farris Thompson is also the author of the now-classic Flash of the Spirit, Black Gods and Kings and African Art in Motion. He also works as Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Reviews

"A wonderfully enthusiastic book...Mr. Thompson is a professor of art history, but he takes his subject in the round, not in any specialised or compartmentalised 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." - New York Times on Flash of the Spirit "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