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Dr. Robert Thompson

    Robert Farris Thompson is a professor of art history at Yale University, specializing in African and African-American art. His work delves into the visual traditions, rhythms, and aesthetics that permeate the African continent and its diaspora. Thompson explores how these art forms articulate profound cultural and spiritual values. His analyses offer readers insight into a rich and complex visual history.

    Tango
    Television's Second Golden Age
    Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
    Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
    Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trail
    Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy
    • 2019

      A complete, illustrated A-to-Z resource for vintage trailer enthusiasts. The Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trailers is a complete alphabet of trailers filled with hundreds of high-quality photos and detailed illustrations that make it a one-stop identification reference. The deeply researched field guide uncovers elusive historical facts that make for excellent campfire conversation starters. There’s no other collection of information like it anywhere. A to Z entries include authentic logos, identifying features, historical briefs, key models, and more. There are spotting notes about rare and unique trailers, events, and trivia. Other highlights include a glossary, a map of manufacturers, and a vintage trailer checklist that’s ready to be filled out on the road. It’s an invaluable resource for all vintage trailers lovers everywhere!

      Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trail
    • 2017
    • 2014

      Beyond Reason and Tolerance

      • 205 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Beyond Reason and Tolerance argues that to prepare students to engage political, ethnic, and religious differences, higher education must adopt a developmental model for a formative and liberal undergraduate education.

      Beyond Reason and Tolerance
    • 2010

      Leathercraft

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      This early work was written for the beginning leather craftsman. Intended as a course of study in leatherwork for elementary and secondary school pupils in the art and industrial art fields, it is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any arts and crafts enthusiast or historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

      Leathercraft
    • 2008

      Explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry. This book shows how to do real lab work: purify alcohol by distillation; produce hydrogen and oxygen gas by electrolysis; smelt metallic copper from copper ore you make yourself; and much more.

      Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
    • 2007

      Designed to be used in the field under the red-colored lighting used by astronomers, this book includes recommended observing targets for beginners and intermediate observers alike. It contains start charts and specific information about the celestial objects. It contains the requirements for list of objects compiled by The Astronomical League.

      Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
    • 2007

      Tango

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      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 and dramatizations in dance halls throughout the world. He shows us tango not only as brilliant choreography but also as text, music, art, and philosophy of life. Passionately argued and unparalleled in its research, its synthesis, and its depth of understanding, Tango: The Art History of Love is a monumental achievement.

      Tango
    • 1997
    • 1984

      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.

      Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy