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Sophie Leclercq

 
Sophie Leclercq holds a doctorate in cultural history and specializes in images and arts in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She is director of studies at the European School of Image and teaches at Sciences Po. She has worked with the National Museum of Education and the Quai Branly Museum.
 
Sophie Leclercq - Éduquer et séduire - Images scolaires de l\'Empire au temps colonial (1870-1960)
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Colonial images, educational images. 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?
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
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.


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