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Author : Sir Reginald Bacon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benin written by Sir Reginald Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ekhaguosa Aisien
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benin City written by Ekhaguosa Aisien and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786806833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gore Charles Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468586
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City written by Gore Charles Gore and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.
Author : Alan Maxwell Boisragon
Publisher : London : Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Benin Massacre written by Alan Maxwell Boisragon and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1898 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Ling Roth
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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Benin; Its Customs, Art and Horrors written by Henry Ling Roth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 2004
Author : Ekhaguosa Aisien
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Benin City Pilgrimage Stations written by Ekhaguosa Aisien and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Connah
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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Archaeology of Benin written by Graham Connah and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew G. Onokerhoraye
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Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benin written by Andrew G. Onokerhoraye and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786079364
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Loot written by Barnaby Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dinah Orji
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ISBN 13 : 9781999336332
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Children of the Benin Kingdom written by Dinah Orji and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Benin written by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sir Charles Hercules Read
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
ISBN 13 : 9781578987016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Antiquities from the City of Benin and from Other Parts of West Africa in the British Museum written by Sir Charles Hercules Read and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254596
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Benin Plaques written by Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Home
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book City of Blood Revisited written by Robert Home and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. E. Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315293846
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria written by R. E. Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author : R. H. Bacon
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Benin, the City of Blood written by R. H. Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
