Robert Farris Thompson, a self-described “guerrilla scholar” who revolutionized the study of the cultures of Africa and the Americas by tracing through art, music and dance myriad continuities ...

Robert Farris Thompson, an eminent art historian recognized for his field-leading research and writing on the art, history, culture, dance, and music of Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world, and who was ...

“Robert Farris Thompson will always have the distinction of pioneering the study of African art as an academic field within the discipline of the history of art,” Henry Louis Gates Jr., a ...

Robert Farris Thompson, the celebrated Yale art historian whose scholarship highlighted the diverse cultural complexity of the African diaspora— largely through his bestselling 1983 book 'Flash ...

Robert Thompson will always be remembered for carrying out one of the most 'barbaric' crimes the country has seen. At the age of 10, the schoolboy along with friend Jon Venables, also 10, abducted ...

Child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were both 10 years old when they kidnapped two-year-old James from a shopping centre in Bootle, Merseyside, on February 12, 1993, and killed him.

The guitarist, who toured with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, now counts Henri Matisse and Joan Miro among his influences. By Jordan Riefe Pearl Thompson - P 2015 It wasn’t so much that guitarist ...

Allan Robert Thompson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 43 USD to 245 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. What is Allan Robert ...

Robert Farris Thompson ’55 GRD ’65, whose pioneering scholarship and seminal work “Flash of the Spirit” defined the horizons of African art history, died on Monday. He was 88. Hailing from El Paso, ...