Krista Thompson | |
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| Title | Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor Professor in the Department of Art History |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Krista Thompson is an art historian. She serves as Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.[1] Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora, particularly the medium of photography.[1]
Thompson earned her PhD in 2002 from Emory University.[1]
In 2009 Thompson won the Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, recognizing "an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history."[2]
Works
- An Eye for the Tropics: Photography, Tourism, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Duke University Press, 2006)[3][4][5][6]
- Developing Blackness: Studio Photographs of “Over the Hill” Nassau in the Independence Era (National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, 2008)
- Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2015)[7][8][9][10]
References
- 1 2 3 "Krista Thompson: Department of Art History - Northwestern University". www.arthistory.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ↑ "2009 Prize Winner: Krista A. Thompson". www.high.org. High Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ↑ Fryar, Christienna (2009-01-01). "An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque". The Journal of Caribbean History. 43 (1): 152. ISSN 0047-2263.
- ↑ Eaton, N. J. (September 2017). "Photobook Aesthetics and Shadows Beyond "An Eye for the Tropics"". British Art Studies (7). doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-07/neaton. ISSN 2058-5462.
- ↑ Bennett, Ian Anthony Bethell (2010). "Review of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque". Caribbean Studies. 38 (1): 198–203. ISSN 0008-6533. JSTOR 27944588.
- ↑ Francis, Jacqueline (2008). "An Eye for the Tropics Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean (review)". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 22 (1): 204–205. doi:10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-204. ISSN 2152-7792. S2CID 192575788.
- ↑ Rarey, Matthew Francis (2017-11-01). "Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice". African Arts. 50 (4): 90–92. doi:10.1162/AFAR_r_00383. ISSN 0001-9933. S2CID 57558608.
- ↑ Stephens, Sandra (2016-05-03). "Krista Thompson, Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice". Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes. 41 (2): 290–292. doi:10.1080/08263663.2016.1180793. ISSN 0826-3663. S2CID 192938297.
- ↑ Phenix, Deinya (2017-01-02). "Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice by Krista A. Thompson". Visual Studies. 32 (1): 81–82. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2016.1262115. ISSN 1472-586X. S2CID 151822840.
- ↑ Berger, Eryn Snyder (2017). "Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista A. Thompson Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 368 pp". American Anthropologist. 119 (2): 364–366. doi:10.1111/aman.12872. ISSN 1548-1433.
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