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Author : Philip John Crosskey Dark,Chicago Natural History Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Art, Beninese
ISBN : LCCN:40378764
Author : Kate Ezra,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870996337
Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Author : BEN AMOS P
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055838729
The stunning artwork of the Benin kingdom (Nigeria) displayed by expert photography is the main attraction in this revised edition, although Ben-Amos' carefully researched text complements the visual delights. She describes the development of the art, its social and religious significance, and the African and European absorption which influenced but never overshadowed the character of the unique masks, jewelry, pottery, and statuary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Barnaby Phillips
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786079367
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 : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215455028
When the Portuguese made the first European contact with the west African kingdom of Benin in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the kingdom was experiencing a golden age. Its authority on the Guinea Coast was expanding through military conquests, and during the sixteenth century it became a leading power in the region and a major trade partner for European merchants. Benin remained an influential independent state and a major political and economic power on the coast, though with periods of both decline and prosperity, until its conquest by the British in 1897. The arrival in Europe of the treasures from Benin produced an enormous sensation, causing a re-evaluation of and new appreciation for African art. This sumptuous photographic book showcases a series of specially taken photographs of key pieces in the British Museum's collection. It opens with an introduction to the kingdom, court and culture of Benin, which is followed by thematic sections including kingship, ceremony, women, Europeans, and animals. Throughout, stunning photographs of the works are featured alongside close-up details.
Author : Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016280920
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Author : Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429679469
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 : Paula Ben-Amos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106016859214
Study of the role of art in the ancient African kingdom of Benin
Author : Dan Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bronzes
ISBN : 1786806843
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 : Barbara Plankensteiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9053496262
Edited by Barbara Plakensteiner. Foreword by O.J. Eboreime.
Author : Gore Charles Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Benin City (Nigeria)
ISBN : 9781474468589
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 : Paula Ben-Amos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253335035
"Benos-Amos opens for the reader richly detailed adn nuanced vistas into the intellectual and cultural history of one of the major kingdoms of precolonial West Africa." — African Studies Review "The wealth of historiographic resources, the command of relevant literature, the ethnographic research and prudent use of oral traditions give this work a high degree of... intellectual excitement.... a landmark in the field." —Warren d'Azevedo Making use of archival and oral resources in this extensively researched book, Paula Girshick Ben-Amos questions to what extent art operates as political strategy. How do objects acquire political meaning? How does the use of art enhance and embody power and authority?
Author : Armand Duchâteau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034271612
"The ancient kingdom of Benin lies in the tropical rain forest of West Africa, in present-day Nigeria. During its classical age, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, it produced one of the continent's most glorious artistic legacies. To reflect the splendor of the royal court, the Oba (king) commissioned highly skilled artisans to create rare and beautiful works of cast brass and carved ivory. These included human and animal figures, relief plaques, elephant tusks, pendants, bracelets, life-size commemorative heads of Obas and queen mothers, and ceremonial objects to adorn the royal palace and the altars honoring Obas of the past. The exquisite brass heads were intended to function as objects celebrating ancestors, as war trophies, and as focal points for sacrificial ceremonies." "This volume presents a superb selection of artifacts from the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna, home to one of the world's foremost collections of Benin art. Most of these artifacts were acquired at the end of the last century, when the influx of Benin objects into Europe after the destruction of Benin City caused a sensation among art experts and caught the interest of museum representatives and private collectors. Of the more than one hundred works reproduced here in full color, the majority have never been seen as a group in the U.S. Most celebrated are the cast brass sculptures - including the two figures of dwarfs - which have no parallel in sub-Saharan Africa." "A history of the kingdom of Benin up to the British punitive expedition of 1897 provides insight into the politics and culture of one of Africa's greatest civilizations. Further chapters discuss the court hierarchy, the art of brasscasting, the art of Benin and its symbolism, and the history of the Benin Collection in Vienna. To interpret the rich symbolism in Benin art, the book furnishes detailed analyses of the works that are reproduced. In his description of myths and ritual observances, the author presents a fascinating cosmology, in which animals were assigned magical and medicinal powers, and the Oba was seen as an intermediary between the earth and the world of spirits."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : H. Ling Roth
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498011934
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
Author : Philip John Crosskey Dark
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015000531353
