Female sculptures of the British Museum

The sculptures of the female silhouette are one of the features of the exhibition of the art of the Ice Age, entitled "The arrival of the modern mind." In this video, the curator Jill Cook and artist Ghislaine Howard explore these representations of women of the Ice Age and contemporary art.

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