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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.


List of Plates

Preface

Preface to the Paperback Edition

1. The Gun That Shoots Twice

2. A Theory of Taking

3. Necrography

4. White Projection

5. World War Zero

6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism

7. War on Terror

8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition

9. The Sacking of Benin City

10. Democide

11. Iconoclasm

12. Looting

13. Necrology

14. ‘The Museum of Weapons, etc.’

15. Chronopolitics

16. A Declaration of War

17. A Negative Moment

18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events

Afterword: A Decade of Returns

Appendix 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897

Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the ‘First Collection’)

Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (the ‘Second Collection’)

Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the ‘Second Collection’)

Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897

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20 août 2022

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80

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9780745347806

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English

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1691 Mo

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