Z. S. Strother

Biography

Professor Zoë Strother is a specialist in Central and West African art history, with a special focus on the 20th-21st centuries. She has conducted research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mali, and Senegal. Her broad intellectual project is to understand the relationship between the image and the social imaginary and its changing history. She has also studied the representation of Africa in the European imaginary through past or future projects addressing: Sara Baartman (the “Hottentot Venus”); Carl Einstein; Vladimir Markov; Leni Riefenstahl. Her current research concentrates on the history of iconoclasm in Africa

Research Interest

African Art