File:Margaret Cogswell MissRiverFugue 2008.jpg

Installation by Margaret Cogswell, Mississippi River Fugues (installation, 2008, Art Museum of the University of Memphis). The image illustrates a later body of work in Margaret Cogswell's career: her "River Fugues" installations of the 2000s. These individually unique, site-specific projects combine detailed research, disparate voices, and multimedia (video, audio, sculptural elements, works on paper) in explorations of the lives of rivers. They weave generations of celebratory and elegiac river stories told through a deceptively simple sculptural installations, video projections and captured local sounds—in the case of the pictured work, from the Mississippi River's history and present. 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 a later body of work in Margaret Cogswell's career beginning in 2003, when she began to produce a series of site-specific installations called "River Fugues": individually unique, multimedia projects involving detailed geographical, historical and social research that explore the intertwining of rivers, industry, people's lives, and the increasingly politicized role of water. The series' title invokes the contrapuntal musical form of the fugue to indicate the weaving of disparate voices, layers and media (video, audio, sculptural elements, works on paper) into a harmonious, composite whole. 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 later body of work, which brought Cogswell her widest recognition through coverage by major critics and publications, museum commissions and exhibitions. 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.