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Installation by Elizabeth King, Bartlett's Hands (sculpture in carved and jointed English boxwood, LCD screen, hidden computer, dedicated lighting; half life-size hand set before a screen playing a stop-motion animation of the hand; 2005). The image illustrates a key body of work in Elizabeth King's career beginning in the 1980s: her installations pairing figurative sculptures of heads, arms and hands, eyes and half bodies with stop-action animations involving subtle, involuntary gestures. In the case of this work, the animation was created using 6,350 still images of the hand in various pose adjustments. The animation was then optically joined with the hand-carved, posed wooden hand using a frame set at an exact viewing distance that made them appear equivalent in size and presence. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Elizabeth King. Copyright held by the artist.

Elizabeth King (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Elizabeth King's career beginning in the 1990s, when she created installations that paired her figurative sculptures of heads, arms and hands, eyes and half bodies with stop-action animations of those works created through a painstaking process of pose adjustment. The animations involved subtle, involuntary gestures—attuned to slight shifts in the tilt of the head or the touching of fingers, which can variously signal cognition, introspection, suspicion, or resignation, for example. King often set up the installations so that the animations and their physical doubles appeared equivalent in size and presence, using devices such as glass lenses for projection or frames. 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 foundational body of work, which brought King wide recognition through museum exhibitions and acquisitions and coverage by major critics and publications. King'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 Elizabeth King, 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.