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“Household Gods is a splendid publication on several counts
The project has been assiduously researched by Mundy
An introduction by Nancy Ireson sets the Recollections in context
and ethics
The brilliant age of Louis XIV saw the creation of a group of unusually large prints―some of which measure a fantastic five feet by three feet when assembled―that reproduced works by the French king's remarkably inventive court painter
African Masks and Emotions: In Theory and in Practice Greece “Household Gods is a splendidZ. S. Strother In this groundbreaking book, Z. S. Strother, inspired by dialogues with African masquerade patrons and performers, disputes assumptions that masks universally hide, reveal, or transform. In Western European languages, the word mask exerts a powerful presence as a figure of speech. To masquerade is to pretend to be someone or something one is not. By extension, unmasking is a heroic metaphor for exposing a hidden truth. In this volume,