Download Book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Writen By Dan Hicks

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

By : Dan Hicks

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Walk into any European 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 brass plaques and carved ivory tusks 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 story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.

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Author : Dan Hicks

Pages : 320 pages

Publisher : Pluto Press

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 0745341764

ISBN-13 : 9780745341767

 
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