Suzanne Blier is 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 (co-author, 2000), Royal Arts of Africa (2012), Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba (2015) and The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art (with David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2017).
'Highly engaging, entertaining, and delightfully instructive … a
must read for any of us seeking to explore the unique ways of
seeing emerging from the continent to which each of us can trace
our ancestry' - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
'A visually stunning and long-overdue global historical treatment
of African art from the entire continent. Its carefully curated
images and daring insights take us into comparative realms that
encourage greater familiarity with the many themes and changing
character of African artistic expression over time. Brava!' - Dr.
Candice Goucher, Professor Emerita of History, Washington State
University
'Suzanne Preston Blier highlights the extraordinary richness of
Africa’s visual culture … I applaud the extraordinary artists and
creativity featured here' - King Aderemi Adedapo (Yoruba, Nigeria);
Convener General, Council of Traditional African Leaders
'Blier’s breadth and depth of knowledge affords a timely
introduction … at its heart are highpoints of the dazzling artistry
that reflect unparalleled cultural dynamism that has flourished
across the continent' - Alisa LaGamma, Pulitzer curator for Arts of
Africa and Curator in Charge of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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