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The Brutish Museums

The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

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The Brutish Museums

De : Dan Hicks
Lu par : Ben Onwukwe
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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.

This audiobook edition, beautifully narrated by actor Ben Onwukwe, is a perfect choice for learning on the go.

©2020 Dan Hicks (P)2022 Pluto Press Art Idéologies et doctrines Politique et gouvernement Sciences sociales

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"A real game-changer." (The Economist)

"If you care about museums and the world, read this book." (New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020)

"Hicks’s urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged book feels like a long-awaited treatise on justice." (Coco Fusco, New York Review of Books)
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Thank you Dan Hicks for stepping out of the genocidal mould in which European ethnographic museums were cast to prioritize restitution for objects whose value has only grown over time, especially for the Africans from whom they were violently stolen and to whom they must be returned. I hope this new imagination of museums can make space for intangible heritage and performance as well as objects, to contribute to the cultural understanding of ritual. I had difficulty listening because audible has removed a feature from their player -- audible please bring back bookmarks and notes!

essential reading for decolonisation of public space and repatriation of looted royal and sacred treasures

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