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1	Tango: The Art History of Love more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist In this generously illustrated book, world- renowned Yale art historian Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of tango, " the fabulous dance of the past hundred years-- and the most beautiful, in the opinion of Martha Graham." From its syncretic evolution in the nineteenth century-- partaking of European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and, ... see all copies from $2.60! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back more books like this by Pamela McClusky, Robert Farris Thompson (Contributions by), Mimi Gardner Gates (Preface by) add to wishlist This strikingly unusual and beautifully illustrated book represents a turning point in African art history. The authors draw on personal memories, interviews, and oral narratives to present twelve 'case histories' of objects - or clusters of objects - in the Seattle Art Museum's renowned collection of African art. Each case history is enriched by ... see all copies from $19.40! new only from $98.03! \| first editions
4	Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide more books like this by Kenny Scharf, Bill McBride (Text by), Robert Farris Thompson (Text by) add to wishlist Pulsating with energy and overflowing with visual information, Kenny Scharf's art infuses pop icons and sinuous biomorphic forms with a symbolism reflecting electronic media's insistent grip on our most primal fantasies. This book collects essays by Ann Magnuson, Robert Farris Thompson and others, intermixed with reproductions of artwork from 1978 ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $82.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist Robert Farris Thompson, Professor of the History of African and African-American Art at Yale University, has been working on this study of African-Atlantic altars for twenty-five years. Face of the Gods is based on fieldwork in both Africa and the Americas - in Mali, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Zaire, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zimbabwe, and ... see all copies from $66.36!
6	Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira more books like this by John Lowell Lewis, Robert Farris Thompson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Based on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry--and a pioneering synthetic approach to the analysis of complex cultural performance. Capoeira originated ... see all copies from $14.60! new only from $21.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Perspectives: Angles on African Art more books like this by James A Baldwin add to wishlist This diverse collection includes essays by James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, Ivan Karp, and David Rockefeller. see all copies from $17.00! new only from $23.00! \| first editions
8	Merengue PB more books like this by Paul Austerlitz, Robert Farris Thompson (Adapted by) add to wishlist Merengue the quintessential Dominican dance music has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City. In this ambitious work, Paul Austerlitz unravels the African and Iberian roots of merengue and traces its growth under dictator Rafael Trujillo and its renewed popularity as an international ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $28.17! \| SVS
9	Mbuti design : paintings by Pygmy women of the Ituri forest more books like this by Georges Meurant, Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist The Mbuti people, who live in the Ituri rainforest of northeastern Zaire, are one of the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world. Since 3500 BC they have been famed for their rich arts of music and dancing, but until recently the barkcloth drawings and paintings originally made by the women as loincloths for ceremonies and dances have ... see all copies from $45.00! new only from $45.05!
10	Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul more books like this by Roger D Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, PH.D., Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered ... see all copies from $11.87! new only from $13.00! \| first editions
11	African Art in Motion: Icon and ACT in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson, Frederick S Wight Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art U S add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! first editions
12	Art of John Biggers more books like this by Alvia J Wardlaw, Robert Farris Thompson, Alison De Lima Greene add to wishlist The catalogue of the first full retrospective of the work of African-American regionalist and symbolist John Biggers. see all copies from $16.14! new only from $59.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Keith Haring: Journals: 4 more books like this by Keith Haring, David Hockney (Preface by), Robert Farris Thompson (Introduction by) add to wishlist A selection from the journal Keith Haring kept from his teens to just before his death from AIDS in 1990. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $91.53! \| first editions
14	The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $80.99! first editions
15	African Art in Motion more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! first editions
16	Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $55.00! first editions
17 view cover	Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World more books like this by Christopher J Fennell, Paul A Shackel (Editor), Robert Farris Thompson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Christopher Fennell offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. He also explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans. Focusing on extant artifacts left by displaced Africans, ... see all copies from $63.76! new only from $63.76! \| SVS
18 view cover	Blood Revenge more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45!
19	Pygmees?: Peintures Sur Ecorce Battue Des Mbuti (Haut-Zaire) more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $686.26!
20	Resonance from the past : African sculpture from the New Orleans Museum of Art by Frank Herreman, William A. Fagaly, Robert Farris Thompson, Tavy D. Aherne, N.Y.) Museum for African Art (New York, New Orleans Museum of Art add to wishlist see all copies from $63.00! new only from $580.00!
21	Painting from a single heart : preliminary remarks on bark-cloth designs of the Mbute women of Haut-Zaïre = Malerei aus Aufrichtigem Herzen : Vorläufige Bemerkungen zu Rindenstoff-Zeichnungen der Mbute-Frauen in Haut-Zaïre more books like this by Robert Farris Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00!
22 view cover	Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City more books like this by Ivor L Miller, Robert Farris Thompson (Foreword by) add to wishlist Derided as graffiti by outsiders, hailed as "writing" by the artists themselves, spray-can art glowed as a whole new genre in the 1970s. Its practitioners made New York City's subway cars their movable canvas. From a vast array of inherited traditions and gritty urban lifestyles talented and renegade young New Yorkers spawned a culture of their ... see all copies from $125.00!

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