Sculpture - Wood - Lobi - Burkina Faso
A female Lobi bateba of the Latara workshop; heavy hard karité wood. Sculptures like this maternity are showing the limitation of a stylistic identification, which are based only on a few objects: it indicates the similarity of certain sculptures, but it can´t give an overview of the sculptural oeuvre of a carver, because it doesn´t content all variations, which probably have a much bigger bandwidth, than we know nowadays.
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A female Lobi bateba of the Latara workshop; heavy hard karité wood. Sculptures like this maternity are showing the limitation of a stylistic identification, which are based only on a few objects: it indicates the similarity of certain sculptures, but it can´t give an overview of the sculptural oeuvre of a carver, because it doesn´t content all variations, which probably have a much bigger bandwidth, than we know nowadays.
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