Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors write by Henry Ling Roth. This book was released on 1903. Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. October 2004
The Brutish Museums
The Brutish Museums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brutish Museums write by Dan Hicks. This book was released on 2020. The Brutish Museums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Walk into any European 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 objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, 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 story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
The Benin Massacre
The Benin Massacre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Benin Massacre write by Alan Maxwell Boisragon. This book was released on 1898. The Benin Massacre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Loot
Loot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loot write by Barnaby Phillips. This book was released on 2021-04-01. Loot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?
The Art of Benin
The Art of Benin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Benin write by Philip John Crosskey Dark. This book was released on 1962. The Art of Benin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
