#  Suzanne P. Blier 

Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies

 

 

 



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 **Suzanne Preston Blier** (Ph.D. 1981 Columbia, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) is an historian of African art and architecture in both the History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Departments. She also is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

 Her most recent book projects include the forthcoming*1325: How Medieval Africa Made the World Modern (Yale University Press 2021)* and *Picasso’s Demoiselles: The True Origins of a Modern Art Masterpiece (Duke University Press* 2019), selected for the 2019 *Wall Street Journal* arts book holiday list and a finalist for the 2020 Prose Prize in Art History and Criticism. Her other books include Les asen: m**é**moires de fer forge dans l’art vodoun du Dahomey (*Geneva: Ides et Calendes. Jan. 2019), *The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art* co-edited with David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2017 Harvard University Press) and *The Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes*. co-edited with David Bindman and Vera Ingrid Grant (2017 Harvard University Press).



 

 

 





 

 

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