SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

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

Savage, Polly (2008) Nnenna Okore : Ulukububa Infinite Flow. London: October Gallery.

Savage, Polly and Hawes, Chili (2006) El Anatsui 2006. London: David Krut.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Savage, Polly, ed. (2014) Making Art in Africa 1960-2010. London: Lund Humphries.

Book Chapters

Savage, Polly (2019) 'Avenida Mao Tse Tung (or how artists navigated the Mozambican Revolution).' In: Galimberti, Jacopo, Haro García, Noemi de and Scott, Victoria H. F., (eds.), Art, global Maoism and the Cultural Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 249-268. (Rethinking Art's Histories)

Savage, Polly (2016) 'Reading Between the Lines: African Students in the USSR.' In: Nash, Mark, (ed.), Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War. London: Black Dog Publishing, pp. 35-43.

Journal Article

Savage, Polly (2024) 'Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes.' ARTMargins, 13 (1). pp. 143-148.

Savage, Polly (2024) 'Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes”.' ARTMargins, 13 (1). pp. 139-142.

Savage, Polly (2022) '‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity.' Art History, 45 (5). pp. 1078-1100.

Savage, Polly (2010) 'The Germ of the Future? Ghetto Biennale, Port au Prince, Haiti.' Third Text, 24 (4). pp. 491-495.

Savage, Polly (2008) 'Playing to the Gallery: Masks, Masquerade and Museums.' African Arts, 41 (4). pp. 74-81.

Savage, Polly (2005) 'El Anatsui: Texts, Contexts, Textiles and Gin.' Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 5 (1). pp. 173-175.

Book Reviews

Savage, Polly (2021) 'London / Accra: James Barnor at The Serpentine.' Source: Thinking Through Photography, 105 .

Savage, Polly (2016) 'Revolution Embodied: Omar Victor Diop’s ‘Liberty / Diaspora'.' Source: Thinking Through Photography (96).