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

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

Winner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential'...
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Hicks, Dan

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

$52.86
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Hicks, Dan

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

$52.86
Author: Dan Hicks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award

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 decolonization 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 relate to the objects of empire we once took for granted.

Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 11/05/2020
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780745341767

About the Author
Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His award-winning research focuses on the restitution of African cultural heritage from Euro-American collections, focusing on the place of ideas of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence.
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