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Suzanne Preston Blier is an American art historian who currently serves as Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her work focuses primarily on African art, architecture, and culture. ==Career== Blier's interest in African art began when she served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1969 to 1971 in Savé, a Yoruba center in Dahomey (now Benin Republic).〔Suzanne Preston Blier "Autobiography and Art History: The Imperative of Peripheral Vision," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics No. 39 (Spring, 2001), pp. 24-40.〕 She began her professorial career at Vassar College serving as a lecturer from 1979 to 1981. She then spent the following years at Northwestern University as an assistant professor. In 1983, she began work at her alma mater, Columbia University as an assistant and associate professor before taking a position as a full-time professor. In 1988, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She remained at Columbia until 1993, subsequently transferring to teach at Harvard University. Other fellowships have included the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton New Jersey as well as the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Ca. (twice), the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) in Washington, D.C., and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Ma.. Her 1987 book, ''The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression'', won the 1989 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award presented by ACASA (Arts Council of the African Studies Association).〔http://www.acasaonline.org/awards_past.htm#ArnoldRubinOutstandingPublicationAward〕 Her 1995 book titled ''African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power'' won the 1997 Charles Rufus Morey Book Prize awarded by the College Art Association for an outstanding publication in art history.〔http://www.collegeart.org/awards/moreypast〕 Her 2004 book, ''Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa,'' with photographs by James Morris, was named a “Best of Year” book selection by the ''Washington Post'' and was selected by the ''New York Times Book Review'' for inclusion in its Holiday Selection that year. Another of Blier’s books, ''The Royal Arts of Africa'', a Choice Award winner, has been translated into five languages and is a leading textbook in the field; it was reissued in 2012. In 2010, two of her articles, "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492"〔Suzanne Preston Blier "Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492" The Art Bulletin Vol. 75, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 375-396〕 and "Kings, Crowns and Rights of Succession: Obalufon Arts in Ife and Other Yoruba Centers"〔Suzanne Preston Blier "Kings, Crowns, and Rights of Succession: Obalufon Arts at Ife and Other Yoruba Centers," The Art Bulletin , Vol. 67, No. 3 (Sep., 1985), pp. 383-401.〕 were selected for inclusion in (The Centennial Anthology of the Art Bulletin ) comprising the 33 top articles over the journal’s 100 year history. Blier was one of only three art historians (along with Meyer Shapiro and Leo Steinberg) to have two articles included. In 2014 Blier published an essay on the importance of African Art in the Art Museum titled "(Art Matters )." Blier's interests in mapping led to the creation of the electronic media project, Baobab: Sources and Studies in African Visual Culture (also known as "The Baobab Project").〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/art.html )〕 This project was established at Harvard in 1993 and funded by the Seaver Institute. It represented "one of the largest academic studies of African art."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/resources_arts.html )〕 The interactive website included images and an ethnographic database based on GIS, along with narrative-form case studies framed around the questions concerning the social roots of creativity. Topics included the coexistence of traditional art and Islam, African political expansion in relation to style, and art variables in the ancient Yoruba city-state. This Baobab Project led to the creation of AfricaMap in 2007, a website that seeks to bring together the best available cartographic data on the continent in an interactive GIS format. In 2011, the AfricaMap website, housed at Harvard's Center for Geographic Research, was expanded into WorldMap along with an array of other map types. For a profile of Blier's career see "Facing African Art." 〔("Facing African Art," Colloquy, Spr. 2013 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suzanne Blier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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