The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

by Dan Hicks

Book Overview

Winner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award

"If you care about museums and the world, read this book"--New York Times
"Urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged...a long-awaited treatise on justice."--New York Review of Books
"A real game-changer."--The Economist
"A bombshell."--Los Angeles Times

The Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745346227
• ISBN13: 9780745346229
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"