@artprof: I am STILL thinking of this Charles Cordier sculpture that @Jordan McCracken-Foster and I saw at the Getty musejm! The mechanics of the head alone: casting the head in bronze and somehow carving the marble headdress so the bronze head would FIT inside?!? 🤯 xoxo Prof Lieu @Claralieu Here is what the plaque said: “Sudanese Man (Nègre du Soudan) 1856 Charles Cordier French, Cambrai 1827-Algiers 1905 Bronze, marble-onyx, silvered and oxidized bronze on a green granite socle The sitter, a native of Sudan whose name is unrecorded, was a percussion player for Muslim religious festivities. He lived in Algiers, Algeria, where the artist portrayed him in 1856. Cordier was among the first artists in Europe to revive a taste for sculptures made with a colorful combination of materials. He innovatively applied his artistic skills to the nascent field of ethnography, which at that time used racialized terms, as in this bust’s historic French title.” . . . #gettymuseum #gettymuseumlosangeles #gettycenter #gettycentermuseum #gettycenterlosangeles #gettymuseumtour

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