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Author | : Paddy Docherty |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787387550 |
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The famous Benin Bronzes are among the most prized possessions of the British Museum. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once the most powerful in West Africa and now part of Nigeria. But despite their renown, little has been written about the brutal act of imperial violence through which the Bronzes were plundered. This incisive new history tells that neglected story: the 1897 British invasion of Benin. Diving into the archives, Blood and Bronze sets the assault on Benin in its late Victorian context. As Britain faced new commercial and strategic pressures on its power elsewhere, it ruthlessly expanded its rule in West Africa. Revealing both the extent of African resistance and previously concealed British outrages, this is a definitive account of the conquest and destruction of Benin. By laying bare the Empire's true motives and its violent means, Paddy Docherty demolishes any moral claim for Britain retaining the Bronzes, and makes a passionate case for their immediate repatriation to Nigeria.
Author | : Barnaby Phillips |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786079364 |
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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?
Author | : Babacar M'Bow |
Publisher | : African American Research Library and Cultural Center |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780977204106 |
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Benin: A Kingdom in Bronze is published with an exhibition of the same title presented by the African American Research Library and Cultural Center, September 2005.
Author | : Kate Ezra |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870996339 |
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Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Author | : Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0429679467 |
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The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts, Benin oral histories, and the physical evidence of the extant plaques, Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.
Author | : Barbara Plankensteiner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789053496268 |
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Edited by Barbara Plakensteiner. Foreword by O.J. Eboreime.
Author | : Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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In the late 15th century, the Kingdom of Benin (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria) established a mercantile relationship with Portugal, significantly increasing its wealth and might. Benin became a regional powerhouse and, under a long lineage of divine rulers, or obas, it wielded great economic and political influence. The obas also supported guilds of artists--chief among them brass casters and ivory carvers--whom they employed to produce objects that honored royal ancestors, recorded history, and glorified life at court. The sophisticated creations of Benin’s royal artists stand among the greatest works of African art. This stunning book features a selection of Benin’s extraordinary artworks that range from finely cast bronze figures, altar heads, and wall plaques to ivory tusks, pendants, and arm cuffs embellished in detailed bas relief. An insightful essay outlines the kingdom’s history and sheds light on these masterworks by describing their production and function in the context of the royal court.
Author | : Philip John Crosskey Dark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Art, Beninese |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dan Hicks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Bronzes |
ISBN | : 9781786806840 |
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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 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. 0The 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 Museum, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of awider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Author | : Clémentine Deliss |
Publisher | : Hatje Cantz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 3775748016 |
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For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations. CLÉMENTINE DELISS has achieved international renown as a curator, cultural historian and publisher of artist's books. In her role as Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, as a curator, and as a professor and researcher at eminent institutes and academies, she focuses on transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges. She is Associate Curator of KW Berlin and Guest Professor at the Academy of Arts, Hamburg.