The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution.
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ISBN: 9780745346229 | 368 pages | 10 Mb
- The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
- Page: 368
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780745346229
- Publisher: Pluto Press
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Overview
New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk 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 objects of empire we once took for granted.
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