Dancing Between Two Worlds: Kongo-Angola Culture and the Americas

by Robert Farris Thompson, C. Daniel Dawson (editor)

A lively description of Kongo-Angola culture from Central Africa and its influence on religion, art, writing, dance, and sport in the Americas.

Genres: History

10 pages, exhibition brochure

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Robert Farris Thompson is a professor of the Art History at Yale University. He specializes in African and African-American art.

Reviews

[AFMasten · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well cited and important essay that I did not have the pleasure to read from end to end until now. Many useful analogies between African art practices and those found in South and North America. No discussion of the mixing that created the new forms.