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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' 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 collections of empire we once took for granted.
- Illustratör: black and white 16 Plates 4 Tables, black and white 18 Halftones black and white
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780745346229
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 368
- Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-20
- Förlag: Pluto Press