The Brutish Museums : The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Paperback / softback
by Dan Hicks
Paperback / softback
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New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire.
They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit.
Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin.
They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria.
Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums.
Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the collections of empire we once took for granted.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 16 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2021
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- ISBN:9780745346229
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 16 Plates, black and white
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/10/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780745346229
