Maureen Murphy

 
Maureen Murphy is an art historian, Professor of contemporary art history at Paris Nanterre University, member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her research focuses on the globalization of the art scene from the perspective of colonial and postcolonial history and the relations between Africa and Europe, as well as the history of primitivism, exhibition and biennials policies.

See also Déborder la négritude – Arts, politique et société à Dakar (edited by Maureen Murphy).
 
Maureen Murphy - L\'Art de la décolonisation - Paris-Dakar (1950-1970)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transnational and transhistorical investigation carried out in the heart of museum and artistic practices between France and Senegal in the 1950s to 1970s, inviting us to decentralize our views in order to consider the globalized history of art of these years in a new light.
Maureen Murphy - De l\'imaginaire au musée - Les arts d\'Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931 à nos jours)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.
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