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Masks at Quai Branly, Paris

The mask hides as much as it reveals, “denies as much as it affirms”, as Claude Lévi-Strauss asserted. Very often the holder of a secret, the mask conceals that which only the initiated should know.
The mask’s power also lies in its capacity to incarnate spirits, a link between man and his ancestors, between the visible and the invisible world.  It is inseparable from a mythical context which structures the mode of existence and thought of the majority of traditional societies.
Central to the life of a group or a community, the mask, an indispensable intercessor, is always active.
For a concise description of the masks in this series follow this link
 

náhodný výběr modelů

Bronze Head of Augustus at The British Museum, London

The sail in Lausanne, Switzerland

Volumnia at The Fine Arts Museum in Ghent, Belgium

Summer at The Jardin des Tuileries, Paris

Shihan Stele, Stele representing a warrior from the land of Moab at The Louvre, Paris

Stone Sculpture of Female Deities at The British Museum, London