Robert Farris Thompson

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Robert Farris Thompson (b. 1932) is the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Having served as Master of Timothy Dwight College since 1978, he is currently the longest serving master of a residential college at Yale. Thompson is America's most prominent scholar of African art, and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington D. C.

[edit] Awards

In 2007, Thompson was given the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award, by the Congress on Research in Dance.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

1971 Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA
1974 African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katharine Coryton White
1974 African Art and Motion: Art Illustrated Guide to the Exhibition
1984 Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy
1993 Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas
2005 Tango : The Art History of Love