Sophie Leclercq
Sophie Leclercq is a historian and associate researcher at the Center for Cultural History at the University of Versailles St-Quentin. She teaches at Sciences Po (Poitiers campus) and is a project manager at the National Center for Educational Documentation. She worked for several years in the research and education department of the Quai Branly Museum.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
