Suzanne Preston Blier

Bio

Suzanne Preston Blier is an art historian, currently professor of fine arts and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and a leading expert on African art, architecture, and culture. Her many books include A History of Art in Africa (coauthor), Royal Arts of Africa, Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba, and The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art, with David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.