Krista_Thompson_(art_historian)

Krista Thompson (art historian)

Krista Thompson (art historian)

Art historian

This article is about the art historian. For the field hockey player, see Krista Thompson.

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]

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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

References

  1. [1]
    "Krista Thompson: Department of Art History - Northwestern University". www.arthistory.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
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    "2009 Prize Winner: Krista A. Thompson". www.high.org. High Museum of Art. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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