The ongoing dispute about the ownership and location of Benin art remains a controversy over whether it should be returned to its place of origin. It is vital to observe the “encounter” between (Woods‚ 2008‚ ‘THE ART OF BENIN’‚ p.7) Europe and the kingdom of Benin‚ when the Benin artefacts were initially plundered and confiscated in the “‘punitive expedition’” (Mackie‚ 2008‚ ‘1897: the ‘punitive expedition’‚ p.23). The British opinion of the Benin people as a “savage and brutal” (Loftus‚ 2008‚ The
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Why is the ownership of Benin Art so controversial? The ownership of Benin Art could have been so controversial for a number of reasons. Most notably I would say‚ is due to the Anthropologists seeing it as a cultural insight into the history of Benin however when people were introduced to start looking at the artefacts from also a more artistic approach‚ this‚ for the anthropologists was taking the cultural effect away from it. Some people may have felt hostile to how these artefacts were obtained
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MUSEUMS AND THEIR VOICES A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF THE BENIN BRONZES WRITTEN BY Charlotta Dohlvik SUPERVISORS Staffan Lundén and Peter Davis Master’s Dissertation‚ May 2006 International Museum Studies‚ Museion‚ Göteborg University 1 ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND ...........................................................................
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Read carefully Reading 2.6‚ ‘Works of Art from Benin City’‚ in Book 3 Chapter 2 and look closely at Plate 3.2.27‚ Plate showing four sixteenth century brass plaques from Benin’‚ in the illustration book. With close attention to both‚ discuss reasons why the ownership and location of the art of Benin have been controversial and continue to be so. The Places which home the artwork of Benin have and continue to cause controversy. They did not always as they did in the late nineteenth century languish
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Altar to the Hand (Ikegobo) of Ezomo Ehenua 18th–19th century Nigeria; court of Benin Brass Here we have an interesting piece from modern day Nigeria. Press play for a formal description‚ the historical background‚ and an explanation of the meaning of various aspects of this object. Formal Description: This sculpture is truly a remarkable work in many senses. As a whole‚ it is sculpted in the round. The figures on top of the piece are also sculpted in the round. The figures surrounding
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script people want to believe. So‚ history by its nature is a subject based on interpretation. As man and time changes‚ so do stories and tales that include history. Therefore it is necessary for students to make and justify decisions about the relative authenticity of historical texts. History can be compared to the situation in class where the teacher whispers a sentence into a student ’s ear‚ and then the student is to repeat the sentence to the next student and so on until the last student hears
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themselves from the rest. Marcel Duchamp was perhaps the first to push the boundaries with his Fountain‚ a urinal in an art gallery‚ which was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th Century by 500 artists and forced his audience to think for themselves. Many artists have followed Duchamp‚ but have had to go to more and more extreme measures to get noticed‚ hence Chris Burden’s Shoot and so on. If Xiao Yu had have put his dead female fetus head in an artwork forty years ago he would have been arrested
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1904). Plate 3.2.25: The display of Benin bronzes at the Horniman Museum is viewed now as works of art instead of pieces of anthropology as they were in 1903 a ‘war booty’. Bronze commemorative heads representing ancient sovereigns‚ ceremonial costumes‚ insignias and royal personal objects which marked the Oba’s position‚ naturally figure at the heart of the exhibition in Paris. The national museum in Britain‚ displays with the full agreement of the Benin people. Plate 3.2.26: Horniman gave it
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Banksy’s Controversial Art Art is an amazing way for individuals to express themselves‚ and people always link it to controversy. Art can be for a person’s individual desire‚ motivation‚ or hobby‚ but it can also be a political message or inspiration for an entire world. A lot of famous artist use there own techniques‚ styles‚ and structures in order to implement there ideas into a form of art. An underground artist from England by the name of Banksy is famous through his controversial and unique
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Chapter One The Art of Benin I I. Introduction A. Cultural Encounters Between Europe and Benin from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century 1. The trade in objects in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 2. The imperial confrontations of the late nineteenth century 3. The engagement with ideas about art in the twentieth century B. European Contacts with Benin Europeans first became aware of the existence of Benin through Portuguese traders in the fifteenth century. The accounts left behind indicate
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