| 词条 | Robert Farris Thompson |
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He lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria for many years while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history. He is affiliated with the University of Ibadan and frequented Yoruba village communities. Thompson has studied the African arts of the diaspora in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and several Caribbean islands. Robert Farris Thompson is also an authority on hip-hop culture.{{cn|date=August 2011}} Career at YaleIn 1955, Thompson received his B.A. from Yale University. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he continued his studies at Yale, where he received his Masters in 1961 and his Ph.D in 1965.[4] Having served as Master of Timothy Dwight College from 1978 until 2010, he was the longest serving master of a residential college at Yale. Thompson is one of America's most prominent scholars of African art,{{cn|date=August 2011}} and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington D. C.. He is one of the longest-serving alumni of Yale. Publications and areas of studyBeginning with an article on Afro-Cuban dance and music (published in 1958), Thompson has dedicated his life to the study of art history of the Afro-Atlantic world.[4] His first book was Black Gods and Kings, which was a close reading of the art history of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria (population of approximately 40 million).[4] Other published works include- African Art in Motion, Flash of the Spirit (1983), Face of the Gods, and Tango: The Art History of Love.[4] Thompson also published an introduction to the diaries of Keith Haring. Some of his works have even been translated into German, Portuguese, French and Flemish.[4] Additionally, Thompson also studies the art of Guillermo Kuitca and José Bedia, and has been anthologized 15 times.[4] AwardsIn 2007, Thompson was given the "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" award, by the Congress on Research in Dance.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080531040752/http://www.cordance.org/Awards.html] Personal lifeProfessor Thompson is an active gym goer. He speaks fluently in four languages which include French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish and can speak intermediately in Yoruba, Ki-Kongo[5] and Creole.[6] He has been to nearly all 47 counties of Africa and has a sister, two children and four grandchildren.[5] Bibliography
References1. ^Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy (Random House, 1984: {{ISBN|0-394-72369-4}}), p. 398. 2. ^{{cite web|title=Robert Thompson|url=http://erm.yale.edu/people/robert-thompson|website=Yale University, The Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program|accessdate=3 July 2016}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Valkeakari, Tuire|editor=Nyman, Jopi|title=Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443815611|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=swAaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|chapter=Between Camps: Paul Gilroy and the Dilemma of "Race"}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|title=Yale University :: Department of the History of Art|url=https://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_thompson.html|website=arthistory.yale.edu|accessdate=2015-10-15|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020060350/https://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_thompson.html|archivedate=2015-10-20|deadurl=yes}} 5. ^1 {{cite magazine|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2919-professor-of-mambo|author=Shufro, Cathy|title=Professor of mambo|magazine=Yale Alumni Magazine|date=July–August 2010|pages=2 and 5}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/robert-farris-thompson-canons-of-the-cool-58823/|title=Robert Farris Thompson: Canons of the Cool|author=Iseman, Fred|work=Rolling Stone|date=November 22, 1984}} External links
8 : American art historians|Yale University faculty|1932 births|Living people|American expatriates in Nigeria|Historians of Yoruba art|University of Ibadan people|People from El Paso, Texas |
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