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The Brutish Museums : the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution

The Brutish Museums : the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution

Hicks, Dan, 1972- author.
Book 2020

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 metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of t...

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Bronzes Nigeria Benin (Kingdom)
Museums Acquisitions Case studies
Museums Acquisitions Europe, Western History
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ISBN:
9780745341767
Description:
xvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The gun that shoots twice
A theory of taking
Necrography
White projection
World war zero
Corporate-militarist colonialism
War on terror
The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition
The sacking of Benin City
Democide
Iconoclasm
Looting
Necrology
'The museum of weapons, etc.'
Chronopolitics
A declaration of war
A negative moment
Ten thousand unfinished events
Afterword: a decade of returns
LCCN:
2020478311
Control Number:
3128390
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