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African Art
African museums
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Africana Studies
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Art History
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Bernard Fagg
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colonial museum
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E.H. Duckworth
Ekpo Eyo
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Kenneth C. Murray
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Nigerian art
Nigerian Studies
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- ISBN 9781666912678
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 159 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In November 1927, Kenneth Crosthwaite Murray (1902-1972) left his family home in West Sussex, England, to develop the art program in the British colony of Nigeria. As he traveled the country, Murray saw the cultural practices and craft production of Nigerian visual material under threat and decided to collect these pieces in order to preserve, understand, and, perhaps, console during a period of great change. Murray and a few of his colleagues, including Edward H. Duckworth, Bernard E.B. Fagg, and Ekpo Eyo and the antiquities department that they founded, built seven museums before independence, established export policies, began calling for the return of cultural heritage, and developed excavation protocol. This book captures the life and legacy of Murray, whose efforts helped foster an understanding of Nigerian art and culture, and explores the tension that arose among the colonial government, officers, and Nigerians who sought to build these cultural institutions during the twilight years of the British Empire and the transition to a newly independent Nigeria.
Amanda H. Hellman is director of the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
