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Installation by Diana Cooper, Astral Lift (multiple materials, 90" x 24" x 29", 2018–9). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Diana Cooper's career in the 2010s, when she produced a series of photo-derived works exploring the built environment through digital photography, fewer elements, and frieze-like or mandala-like arrangements. She collected images of abstract forms, then re-presented them in more autonomous works and closed compositions than prior work, often referencing and framing distinct, bound systems of urban structure, electronics and technology in order to encourage new ways of seeing. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Diana Cooper. Copyright held by the artist.

Diana Cooper (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work by Diana Cooper in the 2010s: her series of photo-derived work, which explored digital photography and the built environment, employed fewer elements, and sometimes took on a frieze-like, illusionistic appearance. In these works, she used photography to create sketchbook-like collections of abstract forms taken from everyday experience—details of airport tarmacs, subway seats, grass, refuse, construction fencing, or gallery architecture—which she re-presented out of context, revealing neglected qualities of beauty and strangeness or to create hyperreal spatial illusions. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later stage and body of work, which brought Cooper initial recognition through exhibitions, commissions and coverage by major critics and publications. Cooper's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Diana Cooper, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.