Aesthetic of the Cool: Afro-Atlantic Art and Music

Contributor(s): Thompson, Robert Farris (Author), Sims, Lowery Stokes (Introduction by)

ISBN: 193477295X EAN: 9781934772959

Publisher: Periscope (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 40.00 US

Binding: Hardcover

Pub Date: November 30, 2011

Annotation: In this generously illustrated book, scholar and teacher Robert Farris Thompson gives us the definitive account of cool--not cool the adjective--cool the aesthetic; the cool fundamental to the culture of the Black Atlantic and expressed in ideals of balance and control; the cool of "creative matters, full of motion and brilliance"; the cool of individual and social responsibility. Show Less