{"id":2959,"date":"2022-08-23T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibits.libraries.emory.edu\/the-power-of-objects\/?page_id=2959"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:31:36","slug":"anthropomorphic-vessel%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibits.libraries.emory.edu\/the-power-of-objects\/anthropomorphic-vessel%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropomorphic Vessel +"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The works here and in the case nearby, selected from the six permanent collections of Emory\u2019s Michael C. Carlos Museum, demonstrate the ways in which different cultures use figurative representation to conceptualize and complicate questions of identity and belonging.<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small>Anthropomorphic Vessel<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3852″ img_size=”large” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]Anthropomorphic Vessel<\/strong><\/em>
\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo<\/strong>
\nMangbetu<\/strong>
\n1912-1930s<\/strong>
\nCeramic<\/strong>
\nGift of William S. Arnett<\/strong>
\n1994.3.19<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Bruce M. White, 2006<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]The Mangbetu vessel depicts adornment favored by elite women at the turn of the twentieth century in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Elongated foreheads, hair woven in a basket-like arrangements, and body tattooing indicated female status and beauty.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row curly_padding=”content-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1661278051888{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small>Head of a Veiled Woman<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3176″ img_size=”large” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]\n

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Head of a veiled woman, perhaps a goddess<\/strong><\/em>
\nGreece, possibly Athens<\/strong>
\nRoman<\/strong>
\nImperial, Hadrianic, ca. 130 CE<\/strong>
\nMarble (Pentelikon)<\/strong>
\nCarlos Collection of Ancient Art<\/strong>
\n1994.2<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Bruce M. White, 2006<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]The symmetrical features, ordered hair, and calm demeanor of the veiled female head \u2013 once part of a public monument constructed on the Athenian Acropolis during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 CE) \u2013 likewise connote ideal femininity but also establish a visual language of political and cultural authority, deploying the representational style characteristic of\u00a0fifth-century BCE Greek art to suggest continuity between Hadrian\u2019s Rome and Athens\u2019s perceived golden age.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row curly_padding=”content-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1661278051888{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small>Female Figure with Elaborate Headdress<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3909″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]Female figure with elaborate headdress<\/strong><\/em>
\nEcuador<\/strong>
\nJama-Coaque<\/strong>
\n300 BCE \u2013 800 CE<\/strong>
\nCeramic<\/strong>
\nGift of William C. and Carol W. Thibadeau<\/strong>
\n1990.11.53<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Bruce M. White, 2015<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]Similarly, the standing Jama-Coaque female effigy from Ecuador represents a high-status woman in a yellow turban, black skirt, and gold jewelry. The clay slabs on either side of her head symbolize draped cloth, and her arms show the imprint of stamped, tattooed, or scarification patterns.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row curly_padding=”content-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1661278051888{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small>Upper Part of a Naophorus Statue<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3908″ img_size=”large” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]Upper part of a naophorus statue<\/strong><\/em>
\nEgyptian<\/strong>
\nNew Kingdom, Dynasties 19-20, 1292-1077 BCE<\/strong>
\nBlack granite Gift of Sally and Joe Gladden in honor<\/strong>\u00a0of Joop Bollen, 2014 <\/strong>Woolford B. Baker Service Award <\/strong>Recipient<\/strong>
\n2014.20.1<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Bruce M. White, 2014<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]Naophorus statues, often found in ancient Egyptian temples, depict men or women offering a naos-shrine to the gods to demonstrate their piety. The hieroglyphic inscription invokes queen Ahmose Nefertari, a powerful New Kingdom queen whose cult was popular among artisans in ancient Thebes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small>Avatars of Vishnu: The Buddha as Vishnu<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row curly_padding=”content-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1661278051888{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3858″ img_size=”large” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]The Buddha as Vishnu<\/strong><\/em>
\nNorth India, Punjab Hills<\/strong>
\n19th Century<\/strong>
\nOpaque watercolor and gold on paper<\/strong>
\nCourtesy of Harshna and Pyush Patel<\/strong>
\nL2020.11.5<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]Indian religious traditions have historically interacted and influenced each other\u2014ritually, mythologically, visually, and socially. This 19th-century watercolor painting represents the Buddha, not in the robes of a renunciant, but as the ninth avatar of Vishnu, wearing the yellow garment often associated with the avatars.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row curly_padding=”content-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1661278051888{padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n


\n<\/small><\/em>There is a Woman in Every Color<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3200″ img_size=”large” style=”xtd-shadow–normal-light” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][vc_column_text]Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915-2012)<\/strong>
\nThere is a Woman in Every Color<\/em> 1975-2004<\/strong>
\nWoodcut, screen print, color linocut<\/strong>
\nGift of Barbara and Larry Schulz in memory<\/strong>
\nof their son, Daniel Schulz<\/strong>
\n2022.9.3<\/strong>
\n\u00a9 Estate of Elizabeth Catlett\/Artists Right Society (ARS), New York<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-7″][vc_column_text]Elizabeth Catlett\u2019s work often explores questions of identity, particularly through the lens of the African American female experience. Catlett combined woodcut, screenprint, and color linoleum cut to create this image; the multiplicity of techniques, the rendering of the woman\u2019s face in both negative and positive, along with the colorful line of women evoke the inclusive nature of Catlett\u2019s activism and her call for gender and racial equality.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

To learn more about the Michael C. Carlos Museum click here<\/a><\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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