Ceramic portraits in pre-columbian America and their moulds (like-negative-film) reflect the agricultural revolution from millennia before Christ, as in the 19th century’s industrial revolution in Europe, when the bon bourgeois managed to reproduce his image in a mechanical way (with photography), and managed to reproduce their images with the ability “to seem to himself”, in a way that had only been possible for the Kings and members of nobility with the painters’ canvases.
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