File:Margaret Cogswell Memento-Mori 1993.jpg

Installation by Margaret Cogswell, Memento Mori (installation, straw, hair, rope, tar, plaster, steel mesh, beeswax and salt, 14' h x 20' x 26', 1993, Utatsuyama Temple, Kanazawa, Japan). The image illustrates an earlier body of work in Margaret Cogswell's career: her installations of the mid-1990s, which explored a wider range of materials (twine, sheets of waxed fabric, newsprint and cheesecloth skins, calligraphic knotted and unknotted ropes, straw, salt, tar), linear tensions, and enclosures or shrine-like environments. This work was initially installed in an abandoned temple in Kanazawa, Japan, and later, at the Newhouse Center in the U.S. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, commissioned, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Margaret Cogswell. Copyright held by the artist.

Margaret Cogswell

Installation view

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an early body of work in Margaret Cogswell's career in the mid-1990s, when she began to shift from self-contained sculptural works to installations that explored new materials and linear tensions, often created as enclosures, frames or shrine-like environments. Her materials expanded to include hanging lengths of tarred twine, sheets of waxed fabric, skins of newsprint wrapped in cheesecloth, knotted and unknotted ropes, and materials used in rituals, such as straw and salt. 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 key transitional body of work, which brought Cogswell increasing recognition through coverage by major critics and publications, museum commissions and exhibitions, and led to her later "River Fugues." Cogswell'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 Margaret Cogswell, and the work no longer exists in this form, 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.