Robert Farris Thompson
(1932-2021)
American art historian
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Robert Farris Thompson (December 30, 1932 – November 29, 2021) was an American historian and writer specializing in the art of Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world. He was a member of the faculty at Yale University from 1965 to his retirement more than fifty years later and served as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art. Thompson coined the term "black Atlantic" in his 1983 book Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy - the expanded subject of Paul Gilroy's book The Black Atlantic.
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30 December 1932
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29 November 2021 (aged 88)
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