All Outputs (14)

Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes” (2024)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2024). Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”. ARTMargins, 13(1), 139-142. https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00377

In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the new nation. Pitched in military terms, and announced in the document translated for the first time here,... Read More about Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”.

Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes (2024)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2024). Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes. ARTMargins, 13(1), 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00378

In April 1977, after almost two years in power, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) announced their plans for the culture of the new nation. Pitched in military terms, and announced in the document translated for the first time here,... Read More about Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes.

‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity (2022)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2022). ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity. Art History, 45(5), 1078-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12692

This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural worke... Read More about ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity.

Art, Autonomy and Parasites: Visual Strategies for Public Health in East and Southern Africa (2021)
Book
Savage, P., & Blackmore, K. (2021). Art, Autonomy and Parasites: Visual Strategies for Public Health in East and Southern Africa. London School of Economics

London / Accra: James Barnor at The Serpentine (2021)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2021). London / Accra: James Barnor at The Serpentine. Source (Belfast), 105,

Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution) (2019)
Book Chapter
Savage, P. (2019). Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution). In J. Galimberti, N. D. Haro García, & V. H. F. Scott (Eds.), Art, global Maoism and the Cultural Revolution (249-268). Manchester University Press

Revolution Embodied: Omar Victor Diop’s ‘Liberty / Diaspora' (2016)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2016). Revolution Embodied: Omar Victor Diop’s ‘Liberty / Diaspora'. Source (Belfast),

Reading Between the Lines: African Students in the USSR (2016)
Book Chapter
Savage, P. (2016). Reading Between the Lines: African Students in the USSR. In M. Nash (Ed.), Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War (35-43). Black Dog Publishing

Making Art in Africa 1960-2010 (2014)
Book
Savage, P. (Ed.). (2014). Making Art in Africa 1960-2010. Lund Humphries

What does it mean to make art in Africa? In Making Art in Africa, 60 of the continent's leading artists give very different answers to this question through a series of extraordinary first-hand commentaries relating to specific works.

The book inc... Read More about Making Art in Africa 1960-2010.

The Germ of the Future? Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, Haiti (2010)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2010). The Germ of the Future? Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, Haiti. Third Text, 24(4), 491-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2010.491384

Playing to the Gallery: Masks, Masquerade and Museums (2008)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2008). Playing to the Gallery: Masks, Masquerade and Museums. African Arts, 41(4), 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2008.41.4.74

Nnenna Okore : Ulukububa Infinite Flow (2008)
Book
Savage, P. (2008). Nnenna Okore : Ulukububa Infinite Flow. October Gallery

El Anatsui 2006 (2006)
Book
Savage, P., & Hawes, C. (2006). El Anatsui 2006. David Krut

El Anatsui: Texts, Contexts, Textiles and Gin (2005)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2005). El Anatsui: Texts, Contexts, Textiles and Gin. Moving worlds (Leeds), 5(1), 173-175