Death Mask HWOS 04 017

2024-04-04T00:00:00Z

Death Mask "The death mask is a (positive) copy of a (negative) copy of a dead person's face. It is an object that at times has been treated with great reverence and/or treated as a necessary tool to recreate facial features in more durable materials than plaster, that is, to create a new, original object of art. In both these functions, the notion has been that the copy speaks the truth: That the plaster copy of the face truthfully reproduces both the actual countenance and the fundamental character of a person" (pp. 184-185). Hylland, Ole Marius. "Faces of Death: Death Masks in the Museum." Museums as Cultures of Copies The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity . Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen and Olav Hamran (eds.), Routledge, 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330306238_Faces_of_death_Death_masks_in_the_museum