{"product_id":"brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution","title":"Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award\u003c\/b\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.","brand":"Dan Hicks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47284633370860,"sku":"9780745341767","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47284633403628,"sku":"9780745346229","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780745341767.jpg?v=1770388027","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/brutish-museums-the-benin-bronzes-colonial-violence-and-cultural-restitution","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}