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

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By (author): Dan Hicks

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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 351g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780745346229

About Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford. His award-winning research focuses on decolonisation in art and culture and academic disciplines and on the role of cultural whiteness in ongoing histories of colonial violence and dispossession.

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