Robert Farris Thompson

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Education

#298

World Rank

#449

Historical Rank

#143

USA Rank

Pedagogy

#563

World Rank

#713

Historical Rank

#182

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Farris Thompson was an American art historian and writer who specialized in Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world. He was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1965 to his retirement more than fifty years later and served as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art. Thompson coined the term "black Atlantic" in his 1983 book Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy – the expanded subject of Paul Gilroy's book The Black Atlantic.

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Robert Farris Thompson's Published Works

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Pygmées? Peintures sur écorce battue des Mbuti (Haut-Zaïre) (1992) (4)
Art et société en Afrique tropicale (1982) (0)
Dispositifs optiques a duree de lecture limitee avec couche reactive interstitielle et leurs procedes de fabrication (2002) (0)
Dispositifs permettant d'administrer au moins un agent actif à un tissu (2011) (0)
Supports optiques, agents d'inhibition de la lecture et procedes de fabrication et d'utilisation de ceux-ci (2005) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Robert Farris Thompson?

Robert Farris Thompson is affiliated with the following schools:

Yale University

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