头枕：女性半身像 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	头枕：女性半身像
品名（英）	Headrest: Female Caryatid Figure
入馆年号	1981年，1981.399
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者	Master of the Cascade Coiffure【扎伊尔人】
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1897
创作地区	刚果民主共和国东南部（southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo）
分类	木制家具（Wood-Furniture）
尺寸	高 6 3/8 × 宽 5 1/8 × 深 4 英寸 (16.2 × 13 × 10.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	卢巴人占据了今天刚果民主共和国东南部的河流和稀树草原。早在十七世纪，卢巴人就领导着一个广泛的、中央组织的国家，其结构是神圣的王权和议会统治的原则。该地区广泛的贸易网络产生了拥有巨大财富和声望的个人，他们委托艺术品用于个人和政治用途。这个矮小的雕塑由卢巴精英成员使用，抬高了其休息主人的头。它的功能可能看起来平淡无奇，但它通过保护睡眠者精致的外衣起到了重要作用，这本身就是一件需要大约五十个小时才能完成的艺术品。在这里，艺术家通过强调和放大雕刻人物自己发型的俯冲曲线，构成了一个俏皮的视觉双关语，反映了它帮助保留的同样精致的发型设计。这个颈托是一组不到二十件作品之一，出自一位雕塑大师之手。由于对扇形发型排列的热情处理，这是 19 世纪该地区的典型发型，这位艺术家被称为瀑布大师。在这里，他将人类形态解释为一系列锐角和细长的线条，通过用精致的四肢和头发鳍构筑空间来创造体积，而不是用沉重的形式填充它。相反的力量创造了节奏，为人物的不对称姿势提供了和谐与平衡：左膝盖的向上推力由右肘的向下推动来回应，而弯曲的右腿和左臂向相反的方向向外延伸。由手臂和腿部形成的三角形开口与复杂的coiffure设计的楔形形式相呼应。最后，躯干的轻微扭曲为这个功能性雕塑增添了另一层视觉活力。
介绍（英）	The Luba peoples occupy a land of rivers and savanna in the southeast of what is today Democratic Republic of Congo. As early as the seventeenth century, the Luba headed an extensive, centrally organized state structured on the principles of divine kingship and rule by council. The widespread trade networks in the region produced individuals of great wealth and prestige who commissioned fine works of art for personal and political use. Used by a member of the Luba elite, this diminutive sculpture elevated the head of its resting owner. Its function may appear prosaic but it served an important purpose by protecting the sleeper's elaborate coiffure, itself a work of art requiring some fifty hours to create. Here, the artist has composed a playful visual pun by emphasizing and enlarging the swooping curves of the sculpted figure's own hairstyle, mirroring the equally elaborate hair designs it helped to preserve. This neckrest is one of a group of less than twenty works attributed to a single master sculptor. Because of the exuberant treatment of the fan-shaped hair arrangement, a typical hairstyle of this region in the nineteenth century, this artist is known as the Master of the Cascade Coiffure. Here, he interprets the human form as a series of acute angles and slender lines, creating volume by framing space with delicate limbs and fins of hair rather than filling it with heavy forms. Opposing forces create rhythms that lend harmony and balance to the figure's asymmetrical pose: the upward thrust of the left knee is answered by the downward push of the right elbow, while the bent right leg and left arm extend outward in opposite directions. Triangular openings created by the arms and legs echo the wedge forms of the complex coiffure design. Finally, the slight twist of the torso adds yet another layer of visual dynamism to this functional sculpture.