BOOK PRESENTATION | The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
Schedule
Sun, 21 Nov, 2021 at 04:00 pm
Location
Hopscotch Reading Room | Berlin, BE
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (2020, Pluto Press) by Dan Hicks
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"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 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 understand the collections of empires we once took for granted."
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More info:
http://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341767/the-brutish-museums/
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Hopscotch Reading Room, Kurfurstenstr. 13-14, Aufgang B, 10785 Berlin, Germany, BerlinEvent Location & Nearby Stays: