Savoy, Bénédicte (2022). Africa's Struggle for Its Art. History of a Post-Colonial Defeat

 

Bénédicte Savoy in 2018

Bénédicte Savoy (French: Bénédicte Savoy [beneˈdiktə savˈwa] (listen), born 22 May 1972 in Paris) is a French art historian, specialising in the critical enquiry of the provenance of works of art, including looted art and other forms of illegally acquired cultural objects.

Savoy is professor of modern art history at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and professor for the cultural history of European art from the 18th to 20th centuries at the Collège de France in Paris. Commissioned by the French president in 2018, she and economist and writer Felwine Sarr from Senegal are the authors of a report on the restitution of African cultural heritage.

Contents

• 1Biography and career
  • 1.1Expert on the ethics of cultural collections
• 2Awards and recognition
• 3See also
• 4Further reading
• 5References
• 6External links
  
  

Further reading[edit]

• Meyer, Andrea, Bénédicte Savoy (2014). The Museum is Open: Towards a Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-11-029882-6. OCLC 874163864.
• Sarr, Felwine; Savoy, Bénédicte (21 November 2018). Rapport sur la restitution du patrimoine culturel africain. Vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle [The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics] (pdf) (Report) (in French and English). Paris. p. 240. ISBN 978-2848767253.
• Savoy, Bénédicte, Charlotte Guichard, Christine Howald (2018). Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art On Western Markets. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-11-054508-1. OCLC 1039210631.
• Savoy, Bénédicte; Bodenstein, Felicity; Lagatz, Merten (2020). Translocations Histories of Dislocated Cultural Assets. ISBN 978-3-8376-5336-6. OCLC 1153525839.
• Savoy, Bénédicte (2022). Africa's Struggle for Its Art. History of a Post-Colonial Defeat. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Princeton University Pres

Offering a major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers, the English translation of Africa’s Struggle for Its Art by Bénédicte Savoy and translated by Susanne Meyer-Abich will be out on April 5th in North America (31 May in UK/Europe). https://hubs.ly/Q0165Dn70