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Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)
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Animals & Beasts

Flemish Mask Designs in the Grotesque Style (1555)

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)
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Religion, Myth & Legend, Colonialism & the ‘Other’

Edward Curtis’ Photographs of Kwakwaka’wakw Ceremonial Dress and Masks (ca. 1914)

Plague Doctor Costumes
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Death, Science & Medicine

Plague Doctor Costumes

The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)
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Music & Arts, Emotion & Expression

The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

Essays
Out From Behind This Mask

Out From Behind This Mask

By D. Graham Burnett

A Barthesian bristle and the curious power of Walt Whitman’s posthumous eyelids — D. Graham Burnett on meditations conjured by a visit to the death masks of the Laurence Hutton Collection. more

27 Jul 2017