Masterpieces of the British Museum

Author: British Museum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714151052
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This new and updated edition includes many recent acquisitions and new discoveries, such as Picasso's stunning Vollard Suite and the intriguing Vale of York Viking hoard, and showcases a selection of more than 250 of the most beautiful and important objects drawn from across the Museum. Each object is presented with its own fascinating story and is strikingly illustrated in full colour. From the Warren Cup to Durers Rhinoceros, the Lewis Chessmen to the Aztec turquoise serpent and the Gayer-Anderson Cat, the iconic objects of the British Museum are here presented in an exciting and accessible new way, highlighting the superb craftsmanship and ingenuity of those who created each of these splendid pieces.

Japanese Art

Author: Lawrence Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description

The Brutish Museums

Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786806833
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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 objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The 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 Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.

Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt

Author: Nigel Strudwick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714119779
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Highlights of the British Museum's Egyptian collections.

Netsuke

Author: Noriko Tsuchiya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. This book brings together one hundred of the beautiful and interesting netsuke from the extensive collection of the British Museum, each of which has its own special charm and story to tell.

Loot

Author: Barnaby Phillips
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786079364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
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?

The Sutton Hoo Helmet

Author: Sonja Marzinzik
Publisher: British Museum Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
"This book explains how it [the Sutton Hoo hemlet] was discovered together with other treasures buried in a ship at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, by the archeologist Basil Brown. He was employed by the owner of estate ... who generously donated the whole find to the British Museum."--Cover verso.

Celts

Author: Julia Farley
Publisher: British museum Press
ISBN:
Category : Art, Celtic
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A beautifully illustrated study of Celtic arts -- style, development and revival - and the relationship between art objects and identity, covering 2500 years of history.

Ice Age Art

Author: Jill Cook
Publisher: British Museum Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780714123332
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
This unique and remarkable work explores the extraordinary creative explosion that happened during the last European Ice Age, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago, when the very first figurative art was created.

Collecting the World

Author: James Delbourgo
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674237483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph