Suzanne Preston Blier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 133596 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Suzanne Preston Blier |
| PRENOMES | Suzanne Preston |
| SOBRENOME | Blier |
| ASSINATURA | BLIER S P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
BOOKThe Image of the Black in African and Asian ArtDavid Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor) https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00136 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17826Copy The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—this volume focuses …
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of …
Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace of the Yoruba
December 01 2012 Art in Ancient Ife, Birthplace of the Yoruba Suzanne Preston Blier Suzanne Preston Blier Suzanne Preston Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Suzanne Preston Blier Suzanne Preston Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor …
Vernacular Architecture
African Creation Myths as Political Strategy
The Art of Assemblage
Africa
Nine Contradictions in the New Golden Age of African Art
Autobiography and Art History
Geest en Kracht
African Vodun
African Vodun
The Anatomy of Architecture
The Path of the Leopard
This article examines Danhomè (Dahomey) myths of dynastic origin, offering at once a critique and counter-narrative to the official dynastic history. Critical to this counter-narrative are the early women of the state, most importantly the mothers and wives of the first rulers. The provocative stories of these women not only add an important human dimension to Danhomè history but also raise important methodological issues, for events associated w…
Shadow Plays
King Glele of Danhomè Part Two
Les animaux-symboles du roi Glele de Danhome (actuellement Benin) et leur representation (seconde moitie du 19 eme siecle). Les insignes royaux. Les divinites associees a la personne royale
Dogon Restudied
King Glele of Danhomè, Part One
Les symboles du pouvoir du roi Glele du royaume de Danhome (Dahomey) qui regna au 19 e siecle
Field Days
In recent years anthropologists and literary critics, most importantly George Stocking Jr. (1983), James Clifford and George E. Marcus (1986), and Clifford Geertz (1987), have led the way to a closer reading of the writings of early anthropologists and a fuller exploration of the intellectual climates in which they were working. As the founder of African studies in this country, Melville J. Herskovits is of considerable importance in terms of rel…
The Anatomy of Architecture
Words about Words about Icons
If we understand “iconology” to mean “the study of icons” (“words about icons”) then “iconologology” may be said to refer to “the study of iconology” (“words about words about icons”). Discourse on iconology, as Jan Bialostocki explains in a historically focused essay on the subject, goes back to the sixteenth century with its manuals of symbols, allegories, and personifications. One of the better known of these works is Cesare Ripa's Iconologia,…
The Anatomy of Architecture
African Art in the Cycle of Life
The Anatomy of Architecture
Melville J. Herskovits and the Arts of Ancient Dahomey
Dogon Restudied
The Path of the Leopard
This article examines Danhomè (Dahomey) myths of dynastic origin, offering at once a critique and counter-narrative to the official dynastic history. Critical to this counter-narrative are the early women of the state, most importantly the mothers and wives of the first rulers. The provocative stories of these women not only add an important human dimension to Danhomè history but also raise important methodological issues, for events associated w…
The Anatomy of Architecture
Field Days
In recent years anthropologists and literary critics, most importantly George Stocking Jr. (1983), James Clifford and George E. Marcus (1986), and Clifford Geertz (1987), have led the way to a closer reading of the writings of early anthropologists and a fuller exploration of the intellectual climates in which they were working. As the founder of African studies in this country, Melville J. Herskovits is of considerable importance in terms of rel…
Words about Words about Icons
If we understand “iconology” to mean “the study of icons” (“words about icons”) then “iconologology” may be said to refer to “the study of iconology” (“words about words about icons”). Discourse on iconology, as Jan Bialostocki explains in a historically focused essay on the subject, goes back to the sixteenth century with its manuals of symbols, allegories, and personifications. One of the better known of these works is Cesare Ripa's Iconologia,…
The Art of Assemblage
The Anatomy of Architecture
Nine Contradictions in the New Golden Age of African Art
The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
BOOKThe Image of the Black in African and Asian ArtDavid Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Suzanne Preston Blier (Editor) https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00136 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17826Copy The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world. Beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—this volume focuses …
African Creation Myths as Political Strategy
African Vodun
King Glele of Danhomè, Part One
Les symboles du pouvoir du roi Glele du royaume de Danhome (Dahomey) qui regna au 19 e siecle
The Dance of Death
Africa's Cross River
African Journey
The Idiom of War in the Bamum Court Arts
Antelopes and Anvils Tamberma Works of Iron
African Masterpieces from Munich
Words about Words about Icons
If we understand “iconology” to mean “the study of icons” (“words about icons”) then “iconologology” may be said to refer to “the study of iconology” (“words about words about icons”). Discourse on iconology, as Jan Bialostocki explains in a historically focused essay on the subject, goes back to the sixteenth century with its manuals of symbols, allegories, and personifications. One of the better known of these works is Cesare Ripa's Iconologia,…
The Anatomy of Architecture
African Art in the Cycle of Life
The Anatomy of Architecture
Melville J. Herskovits and the Arts of Ancient Dahomey
Field Days
In recent years anthropologists and literary critics, most importantly George Stocking Jr. (1983), James Clifford and George E. Marcus (1986), and Clifford Geertz (1987), have led the way to a closer reading of the writings of early anthropologists and a fuller exploration of the intellectual climates in which they were working. As the founder of African studies in this country, Melville J. Herskovits is of considerable importance in terms of rel…
The Anatomy of Architecture
King Glele of Danhomè, Part One
Les symboles du pouvoir du roi Glele du royaume de Danhome (Dahomey) qui regna au 19 e siecle
King Glele of Danhomè Part Two
Les animaux-symboles du roi Glele de Danhome (actuellement Benin) et leur representation (seconde moitie du 19 eme siecle). Les insignes royaux. Les divinites associees a la personne royale
Dogon Restudied
Shadow Plays
The Path of the Leopard
This article examines Danhomè (Dahomey) myths of dynastic origin, offering at once a critique and counter-narrative to the official dynastic history. Critical to this counter-narrative are the early women of the state, most importantly the mothers and wives of the first rulers. The provocative stories of these women not only add an important human dimension to Danhomè history but also raise important methodological issues, for events associated w…
African Vodun
The Anatomy of Architecture
Geest en Kracht
African Vodun
Autobiography and Art History
Nine Contradictions in the New Golden Age of African Art
Africa
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