art of decolonisation

Maureen Murphy is Professor of Art History at Paris Nanterre University

‘Murphy's thoroughly researched work provides fresh perspectives on Senegalese modern art through comprehensive use of archival sources. In clear, persuasive language, she explores the complexities of cultural transition across historical periods, national boundaries, and artistic media. Her critical analysis of decolonization reveals an artistic imagination that transcends reductive binaries of Europe versus Africa or dominant versus marginalized. The book is an essential resource for scholars and readers interested in postcolonial studies, museology, and global modernism.’—Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, The Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator in Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York‘This fascinating book provides a fresh look at the cultural politics, institutional gambits and artistic claims shaping the postwar relations between Senegal and France. With her compelling transhistorical approach and careful archival work, Murphy deepens and complicates our knowledge of Senegalese modernism, anticolonial politics, and the networked histories of modernisms from the global south.’—Elizabeth Harney, University of Toronto Scarborough

• Preface to the translation: Outside in the French academic machineIntroduction1 Exchanging rather than returning2 Behind the masks3 Overthrowing colonial legacies4 Creating a new art for a new nation5 The Musée dynamique: platform for decolonisation6 The école de Dakar in Paris EpilogueSources