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The Global Market Trajectories of Two Brass Leopards from Benin City (1897–1953)

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The art market trajectory of these two brass leopards, looted in Benin in 1897, illustrates the relationship between processes of commodification and changes in the narratives about African art; processes that are often visualized in the readily communicating circuits of commercial galleries and museum exhibitions. Read in direct relationship to their successive displacements, the price history of these objects attests to the stark economic asymmetries, as well as to the difference of their cultural meaning, between the place from which the piece originated and the place where it is today and to the long history of enrichment that such objects provide through their commodification.
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halshs-03619742, version 1 (25-03-2022)

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Felicity Bodenstein. The Global Market Trajectories of Two Brass Leopards from Benin City (1897–1953). Reading Objects in the Contact Zone, 2021, ⟨10.17885/heiup.766.c10415⟩. ⟨halshs-03619742⟩
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