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 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.
