{"product_id":"the-brutish-museums-by-dan-hicks-9780745341767","title":"The Brutish Museums","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e: 'Best Art Books' 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Essential' - \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly enraged' - \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A real game-changer' - \u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalk 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brutish Museums\u003c\/em\u003e sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation, and the decolonisation 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 empire we once took for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432829141228,"sku":"9780745341767","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780745341767.jpg?v=1774766344","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-brutish-museums-by-dan-hicks-9780745341767","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}