Thanks to Sally Williams of the Brooklyn Museum for sending me the Press Release for the above forthcoming exhibition. Apologies that I am a bit late posting it but the exhibition doesn't start until the 19th December.
December 19, 2008–May 31, 2009
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Herstory Gallery, 4th Floor
Who is she? A goddess, a ritual object, a votive offering, a vehicle for working magic or fulfilling wishes, a talisman for protection, a teaching or initiation device, or simply an ancient woman's embodiment of herself? The oldest sculpture in the Brooklyn Museum represents a woman; it was made by people living in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), Syria, or Turkey in the late sixth or fifth millennium B.C.E. She and other ancient female figurines with exaggerated or highly stylized female forms are small in scale but great in their ineffable power to capture the imagination of those who confront them.
Items are also represented from Egypt and Nubia. See the above page for more details.
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