{"product_id":"the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution-hardcover","title":"The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Hicks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Best Art Books' 2020 \u003cbr\u003e 'Essential' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Brilliantly enraged' - \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A real game-changer'- \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brutish Museums\u003c\/i\u003e sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonization 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 relate to the objects of empire we once took for granted.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47396990419122,"sku":"9780745341767","price":37.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0e3315c54d7df4abaf130d6afc2dc19d.webp?v=1778019624","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}