Zoë S. Strother is an art historian. She serves as Riggio Professor of African Art at Columbia University. Her work focuses on 20th and 21st-century Central and West African art history.
Zoë S. Strother | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Title | Riggio Professor of African Art |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (2000) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African Art |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
She graduated from Yale University.[1]
Strother was a 2000 Guggenheim Fellow.[2] Her book Inventing Masks[3][4][5][6] won the 2001 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.[7] In it she describes masks as part of a larger performance and thus creative process.[5] Against the Franz Boas vein of interpreting African art such as masks as a conservative matter of tradition, Strother’s fieldwork finds they are a site of invention and novelty, demonstrating the agency of the creators and wearers.[5] Critics praised the book, saying the cover blurbs were “not hyperbole”.[5]
Works
edit- Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende (University of Chicago Press, 1998) ISBN 9780226777337, OCLC 41258436
- Pende (5 Continents Editions, 2008) OCLC 148864715
- Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism: A Charter for the Avant-Garde' with Jeremy Howard and Irēna Bužinska (Ashgate, 2015) ISBN 9781317001027, OCLC 973229740
- Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art, 1850-1997 (Indiana University Press, 2016) ISBN 0253022673, OCLC 966825524
References
edit- ^ "Zoë Strother - Faculty - Department of Art History and Archaeology - Columbia University". arthistory.columbia.edu. Columbia University. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Z. S. Strother". www.gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ Muller, Jean-Claude (1999). "Z.S. STROTHER, Inventing Masks. Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1998, 348 p., 8 planches couleur, photogr., bibliogr., index". Anthropologie et Sociétés (in French). 23 (3): 188–190. doi:10.7202/015626ar. ISSN 0702-8997.
- ^ Argenti, Nicolas (2000-03-01). "Inventing masks: agency and history in the art of the central Pende". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6 (1): 182.
- ^ a b c d Vansina, J. (September 1998). "Z.S. Strother. Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xxvii + 348 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth". African Studies Review. 41 (2): 178–179. doi:10.2307/524848. ISSN 0002-0206. JSTOR 524848. S2CID 146996693.
- ^ De Heusch, Luc (2000). "Strother, Z. S., 1998 : Inventing masks. Agency and history in the art of the Central Pende". Journal des Africanistes. 70 (1): 383–390.
- ^ "ACASA : Arts Council of the African Studies Association". archive.is. African Studies Association. 5 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2017.