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An Answer to Digital Benin and its Postcolonial...
An Answer to Digital Benin and its Postcolonial Scholarship Digital Benin has emerged as one of the most comprehensive digital archives dedicated to the art and history of the former...
An Answer to Digital Benin and its Postcolonial...
An Answer to Digital Benin and its Postcolonial Scholarship Digital Benin has emerged as one of the most comprehensive digital archives dedicated to the art and history of the former...
A limited art historical framework?
Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch's A 16th Century Imperial Monument is widely regarded as a major scholarly reference work for the interpretation of the Benin Plaques. Particularly noteworthy is Gunsch's approach of...
A limited art historical framework?
Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch's A 16th Century Imperial Monument is widely regarded as a major scholarly reference work for the interpretation of the Benin Plaques. Particularly noteworthy is Gunsch's approach of...
Tada and Benin Hunter Figures
The so-called Tada or Benin Hunter figures, discussed among others in connection with the collections of Wolfgang Jaenicke and within the context of the British Museum, belong to the most...
Tada and Benin Hunter Figures
The so-called Tada or Benin Hunter figures, discussed among others in connection with the collections of Wolfgang Jaenicke and within the context of the British Museum, belong to the most...
A Real Conspiracy Thriller in the Form of a Fra...
IMPORTANT NOTE:This screenplay is a purely fictional story. All characters, institutions, methods, and events have been altered or entirely invented for the dramatic purposes of this conspiracy thriller. They bear...
A Real Conspiracy Thriller in the Form of a Fra...
IMPORTANT NOTE:This screenplay is a purely fictional story. All characters, institutions, methods, and events have been altered or entirely invented for the dramatic purposes of this conspiracy thriller. They bear...
"Allo Kafi Gida" by Antoine Lema
Published by Five Continents Editions in 2019, Allo Kafii Gida: Secret Qur’anic Boards from Northern Nigeria by Antoine Lema constitutes a hybrid object situated between ethnographic documentation, art-historical inquiry, and...
"Allo Kafi Gida" by Antoine Lema
Published by Five Continents Editions in 2019, Allo Kafii Gida: Secret Qur’anic Boards from Northern Nigeria by Antoine Lema constitutes a hybrid object situated between ethnographic documentation, art-historical inquiry, and...
Where does history begin? Does it begin within ...
"On the Chronology of Benin's Art: Between Museum, Market, and Myth" by Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer. This is the title of a lecture announced by the “Association of Friends of African...
Where does history begin? Does it begin within ...
"On the Chronology of Benin's Art: Between Museum, Market, and Myth" by Dr. Stefan Eisenhofer. This is the title of a lecture announced by the “Association of Friends of African...