In his landmark 1983 book “Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy,” groundbreaking art scholar Robert Farris Thompson connects dots of African diasporic artistic innovation by locating a “flash of the spirit” rooted in various African cultural and religious practices. Post the African slave trade, that spirit manifested and evolved in site-specific…
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