Suzanne Preston Blier
Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies
Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Blier is current President of the College Art Association, the professional association of art historians and artists. Her new book, Picasso’s Demoiselles: Africa, Sex, Origins, and Creativity appears in 2019.Her most recent book Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba (Cambridge University Press) won the 2016 Prose Prize in Art History and Criticism. Other books include: The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (Harvard University Press, 2017) co-edited with D. Bindman and H.L. Gates, Jr., African Vodun (winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Prize); The Anatomy of Architecture (winner of the Arnold Rubin Prize); African Royal Art (Choice Book Award), and Butabu: Adobe Architecture in West Africa (Holiday Selection, NY Times).