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Book Review
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 823-825
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Reviewer:
Evans, Mark (Evans, Mark)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Nigeria / Asia
styles:
Benin (ancient Nigerian style)
subjects:
Looting / Colonialism / Stolen works of art / Ethnology / Museums / Collections / Military art and science
subjects:
Restitution
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collections and the British Empire Edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan. 344 pp. incl. 31 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–3920–7. | :
subjects:
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes By Barnaby Phillips. 416 pp. incl. 15 col. + 26 b. & w. ills. (Oneworld Publications, London, 2021), £10.99. ISBN 978–0–86154–313–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Trophy head. Kumasi, Ghana, 18th or 19th century. Gold, height 20 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).