Heroes Live On: Episode 1

Join curator Kevin D. Dumouchelle on a 7-part video tour of the exhibition Heroes: Principles of African Greatness, exploring artworks from the National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection that tell the story of key heroic principles and personages in Africa’s arts and history.
[Part 1] That Liberty and Equality Might Yet Reign: The universal struggle for Liberty and Equality animates the opening series of works in Heroes. For all of the remote and abstract ways in which ideas of liberty and equality are all-too-often casually invoked, particularly in the contemporary Western world, they have deeply personal consequences for those denied the luxury of enjoying them on an everyday basis. The artists and heroes in history depicted in this foundational section all share a clear and defiant understanding of their fundamental rights to the realization of these principles.

Видео Heroes Live On: Episode 1 канала Smithsonian National Museum of African Art