Robert Farris Thompson, Date of Birth

Robert Farris Thompson

American art-historian

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1932

Profession: historian, art historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Robert Farris Thompson (born December 30, 1932, El Paso, Texas) is an American historian and writer specialising in the art of Africa and the Afro-Atlantic world.
He has been a member of the faculty at Yale University since 1965 and currently serves 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.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.