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  • Flash of the Spirit

    African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    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. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Keith Haring Journals

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Keith Haring ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Search of Ancient Kings

    Egúngún in Brazil

    by Brian Willson ...
    The Egúngún society is one of the least-studied and written-about aspects of African diasporic spiritual traditions. It is the society of the ancestors, the society of the dead. Its primary function is to facilitate all aspects of ancestor veneration. Though it is fundamental to Yorùbá culture and the Ifá/Òrìṣà tradition of the Yorùbá, it did not survive intact in Cuba or the US during the forced ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Tango

    The Art History of Love (With a Foreword by David Byrne)

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    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.”Thompson traces tango’s evolution in the nineteenth century under European, Andalusian-Gaucho, and African influences through its representations by Hollywood ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blues for New Orleans

    Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

    by Roger Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    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 jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Blues for New Orleans

    Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

    by Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, Robert Farris Thompson, Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    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 jazz music, made of old parts and put together in ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Keith Haring Journals

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Keith Haring ...
    Narrated by Shepard Fairey, David Pittu ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

    Unabridged

    13 hours 17 min

    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, adapted for audio, is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • South to America

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  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

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  • High on the Hog

    A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

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