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According to Wikipedia , Suzanne Preston Blier is an American art historian who currently serves as Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University with appointments in both the History of Art and Architecture department and the department of African and African American studies. She is also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her work focuses primarily on African art, architecture, and culture.
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1980 1990 2000 2010 0 12.5 25 37.5 50 62.5 75 87.5 100 112.5 125 137.5 Published Works The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression. (1987) African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power (1995) The Art Of Assemblage (2004) (51)Royal Arts of Africa: The Majesty of Form (1998) Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies] (1991) Review of Jean-Paul Bourdier and Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Drawn from African Dwellings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press) (1998) (17)Enduring Myths of African Art (1996) (15)Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa (2003) (14)Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300 (2015) Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492 (1993) Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace of the Yoruba (2012) Words about Words about Icons: Iconologology and the Study of African Art (1988) The Path of the Leopard: Motherhood and Majesty in Early Danhomè (1995) Kings, Crowns, and Rights of Succession: Obalufon Arts at Ife and other Yoruba Centers (1985) Houses are Human: Architectural Self Images of Africa's Tamberma (1983) African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power@@@The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender@@@Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (1998) Art Systems and Semiotics: The Question of Art, Craft, and Colonial Taxonomies in Africa (1988) African Art and Architecture (1982) (8)Melville J. Herskovits and the Arts of Ancient Dahomey (1988) Field Days: Melville J. Herskovits in Dahomey (1989) Nine Contradictions in the New Golden Age of African Art (2002) The Art of Assemblage: Aesthetic Expression and Social Experience in Danhomè (2004) Truth and Falsehood: Fetish, Magic, and Custom in European and African Art (1993) (5)Beauty and the beast : a study in contrasts (1976) The Dance of Death: Notes on the Architecture and Staging of Tamberma Funeral Performances (1981) Moral Architecture: Beauty and Ethics in Batammaliba Building Design (1989) (4)Ways of Experiencing African Art: The Role of Patina (2004) (3)King Glele of Danhomè, Part One: Divination Portraits of a Lion King and Man of Iron (1990) Trading and Transcending Places: A Hybrid, Multiplex Approach to Visual Culture (2004) (3)Africa's Cross River: Art of the Nigerian-Cameroon Border Redefined (1981) The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (2017) King Glele of Danhome. Part Two: Dynasty and Destiny (2009) Art and Secret Agency: Concealment and Revelation in Artistic Expression (1993) (3)African Art at the Crossroads: An American Perspective (1990) (3)Autobiography and Art History (2001) (3)Antelopes and Anvils: Tamberma Works of Iron (1984) King Glele of Danhomé: Dynasty and Destiny (Part II) (1991) (3)THE AFRICAN URBAN PAST : HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE METROPOLIS (3)Notes from the Field: Mimesis (2013) Capricious Arts: Idols in Renaissance era Africa and Europe (The Case of Sapi and Kongo) (2009) Treasures of Ancient Nigeria (1982) Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade (2002) (2)African Creation Myths as Political Strategy (2004) Autobiography and Art History: The Imperative of Peripheral Vision (2001) King Glele of Danhomé: Divination Portraits of a Lion King and Man of Iron (Part I) (1990) (2)The Woman, the Snake and the Ocean: A Masterpiece of Vodun Sculpture from Southern Benin (2000) (1)Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Images of the Portuguese Circa 1492 (1993) (1)L'art royal africain (1997) (1)Imaginarium: African masks and Western Mindscapes (2010) (1)Architecture of the Tamberma (Togo) (1981) (1)Benin: The Place Where Vodun Was Born (1995) (1)Towards a History of Tamberma Two Story Architecture: Origins, Impetus, and Factors of Change (1984) (1)Shadow Plays: Reading between the Lines in Postmodernist Criticism (1992) Gestures in African art : essay (1982) (1)The Path of the Leopard: Majesty and Motherhood in Danhomé Dynastic Discourse (1995) (1)Review Essay, on three recent catalogues on African art (Pamela McClusky, Martha Anderson and Philip M. Peek, Frederick Lanp) (2005) (0)African Cosmogony, review essay (1982) (0)"Animalia: the Natural World, Art, and Theory" (2010) (0)Fon Monkey Figure (2005) (0)Le Musée Histoire D'Abomey: Colonial and Princely Prerogatives in the Establishment of an African Museum Milan (1991) (0)Art of the Senses: Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection (2004) (0)Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Battling with Symbols: Staffs of Office, Menhirs, and Thrones (2015) Imagines Mundi: Narrative, Ritual, and Architectural Exemplars of Batammaliba Cosmogony (1987) (0)African Royal Art: The Majesty of Form (1998) (0)Animal Avatars: Art, Identity, and the Natural World (2015) Antelopes and Anvils: Artistic Sources and Imagery in Tamberma Works of Iron (1984) (0)The Place Where Vodum Was Born: At a West African crossroads, devotees of an ancient religion welcome each appearance of the gods (1995) (0)"African Amazons: A German Poster" (2010) (0)Art, Risk, and Identity (2015) (0)The African Roots of Vodou (1995) (0)Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: A Gallery of Portrait Heads: Political Art in Early Ife (2015) Dogon Art and Architecture (1999) (0)African Art in the Cycle of Life by Roy Sieber , Roslyn Adele Walker (2009) (0)The Art of Cameroon (1984) African Journey: Art of the Ivory Coast (1981) If Looks Could Kill: Aesthetics and Political Expression (2015) Europia: Nineteenth Century Dahomey Portrayals of the West (2008) (0)African Art@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent@@@Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty (1997) Gestures in African art (1982) (0)Gesture and Art in Africa (1997) (0)Faces of Iron: Media, Meaning, and Masking in Danhomé (1991) (0)Crowning Glory: The Art and Politics of Royal Headgear (2015) Fertility: Representing Regeneration in Art (2003) (0)Embedding Identity: Marking the Ife Body (2015) The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts by Christraud M. Geary Levels of Reality: Portraiture in African Art by Jean Borgatti (2009) (0)Meeting the Amazons (2008) (0)Mapping the Ituri: Mbuti Barkcloth Paintings and the Canvases of Anne Eisner (2005) (0)Suzanne Preston Blier. The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batatnmaliba Architectural Expression . RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xx+314pp. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Maps. Photographs. $17.95. Paper. (1996) Out of Fire Comes Strength, The Somba of Dahomey (1974) (0)Making Art: Artists, Subjects, Materials, and Patrons (2015) Butabu: The Surreal Adobe Architecture of West Africa (2004) (0)Extending WorldMap to Make It Easier for Humanists and Others to Find, Use, and Publish Geospatial Information (2016) (0)Religion and Art in Ile‐Ife (2012) Le Roi Glele du Dahomey (1996) (0)Solar Plexis/Spatial Nexus: Architectural Dimensions of the Soul (1988) (0)Ife, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) Benin, Art of the Early Kingdom (1999) (0)Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Bibliography (2015) Introduction: Risk, Art, and History (2015) AfricaMap Release I, Beta An Infrastructure for Collaboration (2009) (0)Assemblage: Dahomey Art and the Politics of Dynasty (2003) (0)Razing the Roof: The Architecture of Destruction in Dahomey (2005) (0)Fon Asen Memorial (2005) (0)Art of Cameroon, text written for film Video Disk, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1981) (0)Picasso's Demoiselles (2019) Experiencing Art at Ife: Sight, Site, and Viewership (2015) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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