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Blier, Suzanne Preston Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity c. 1300., In Press.
2011
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Art brutal: La puissance esthétique du bocio dans l’art vaudou des côtes du Bénin et du Togo." Vaudou: Collection Anne & Jacques Kerchache. Paris: Fondation Cartier., 2011.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Des pots et des chevaux: Arts anciens du convoyage au Nigeria/ Of Horses and Pots: Early Nigerian Arts of Conveyance." Art et Cultures. Geneva: Musée Barbier-Mueller (2011).
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492." The Centennial Anthology of the Art Bulletin. New York: College Art Association, 2011.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Kings, Crowns and Rights of Succession: Obalufon Arts in Ife and Other Yoruba Centers." The Centennial Anthology of the Art Bulletin. New York: College Art Association, 2011.
2010
Blier, Suzanne Preston "Animalia: the Natural World, Art, and Theory". On the Human. National Humanities Center., 2010.
Blier, Suzanne Preston "African Amazons: A German Poster". in Center 30: Records and Activity Reports. National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: : National Gallery of Art, 2010.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Imaginarium: African masks and Western Mindscapes." L’Africa delle meraviglie. Arti africane nelle collezioni italiane. Genoa: Palazzo ducale., 2010.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "La laideur nécessaire." 100,000 Years of Beauty. Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
2009
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Capricious Arts: Idols in Renaissance era Africa and Europe (The Case of Sapi and Kongo)." In Idols in the Age of Art. Eds. Michael Cole, and Rebecca Zorach. London: Ashgate, 2009.
2008
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Europia: Nineteenth Century Dahomey Portrayals of the West." Europe Observed. Eds. Kumkum Chatterjee, and Clement Hawe. Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell University Press, 2008.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Meeting the Amazons." in Human Zoos: Science and Spectacle in the Age of Colonial Empires. Ed. Pascal Blanchard. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press., 2008.
2007
Blier., Suzanne Preston Africamap. Harvard University, 2007. Abstract
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2006
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Vernacular Architecture." Handbook of Material Culture. Ed. Webb Keane. London: Sage Publications, 2006.
2005
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Fon Asen Memorial." Masterpieces of African Art in the New Orleans of Fine Arts. New York: Museum for African Art, 2005.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Fon Monkey Figure." Masterpieces of African Art in the New Orleans of Fine Arts. New York. : Museum for African Art, 2005.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Mapping the Ituri: Mbuti Barkcloth Paintings and the Canvases of Anne Eisner." Imaging the Congo: The Paintings of Anne Eisner. Ed. Christie McDonald. London: Five Continents Press, 2005.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Razing the Roof: The Architecture of Destruction in Dahomey." Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements. Ed. Tony Atkin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Review Essay, on three recent catalogues on African art (Pamela McClusky, Martha Anderson and Philip M. Peek, Frederick Lanp)." Art Bulletin. (2005).
2004
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "African Creation Myths as Political Strategy." African Arts. vol 37. no. 1, (2004): pp. 39-45, 94.
Art of the Senses: Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection. Eds. Suzanne Preston Blier. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2004. AbstractWebsite
How the "unique" look of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare to the way in which these objects were seen in Africa? Presenting the William and Bertha Teel Collection for the first time, this book provides a chance to think about how our vision of such objects is shaped by the "ethnographic," "primitive," or "modern" labels that have been applied in the West, and to compare it to how those same works were viewed in their birthplace. Lavish, full-color illustrations of over 100 choice objects combine forces with essays by leading African art specialists Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Kan, and Edmund B. Gaither, and object descriptions by the collector himself, to provide a thoughtful and visually stimulating examination of these important African forms--as well as of the dynamic relationship among their creators, their original cultural contexts, and the Western viewing public.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Butabu: The Surreal Adobe Architecture of West Africa." ICON: World Monuments (2004).Website
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Trading and Transcending Places: A Hybrid, Multiplex Approach to Visual Culture." Anthropologies of Art. Ed. Mariet Westermann. New Haven: Yale University Press., 2004.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Ways of Experiencing African Art: The Role of Patina." Art of the Senses: Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection. Ed. Suzanne Preston Blier. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts., 2004.
2003
Blier, Suzanne Preston. "Assemblage: Dahomey Art and the Politics of Dynasty." Res: Anthropology and Art. Vol. 45. (2003): 186 ff.