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Ancestors, Goddesses, And Heroes

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Author Stiftung Humboldt Forum
ISBN 9783422990906
Published Language English
Publication Year 2023
Publisher Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
Binding Paperback
Original Price €22.00
Pages 96
Ships By 7-8 days
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SKU: DG-1587 Categories: ,

Description

Protecting, healing, or punishing—people of various eras and origins have attributed such powers to the sculptures that are being presented together here for the first time: be it the sculpture of the Mangaaka from what is today the Republic of Congo, the protective goddess Mahamayuri from China, or the Maria on the globe from Southern Germany. Forty-five objects created between the fourth and the nineteenth century from two museums in Berlin provide a vivid testimony to the ever-present need for protection and orientation when dealing with individual or social crises. They represent the existence of an invisible world of gods, spirits, or ancestors, and create a connection between this world and a different reality. As a result of how they are presented in museums, their context of use is, however, often lost—a situation that is reflected on by the authors of this book.