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Sculpture by Phyllis Green, Infanta Margarita (ceramic, fabric and mixed media, 9" x 47" x 16", 1994–98). The image illustrates a key body of work by Phyllis Green in the 1990s when she produced playful, feminist-inflected sculptures that freely mixed materials, sources, concerns for craft and surface, and metaphorical content regarding the female body and gender politics. The image depicts a work from her "Turkish Bath" series (1993–98), which consisted of eccentric, exotic objects placed on overstuffed pillows and silk-swathed pedestals and distilled qualities such as exoticism, animal magnetism, forbidden pleasure, post-coital bliss into sculptural essences. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Phyllis Green. Copyright held by the artist.

Phyllis Green

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work phase in the first half of Phyllis Green's career in the 1990s: her playful sculptures which blended a wide range of materials and diverse sources, engagement with craft and surface appearance, unconventional juxtapositions, and a grounding in the female body and metaphorical content. This work grew out of 1970s feminism and consciousness-raising, and explored objects and their social context, gender politics, domesticity, and art history, often through ostentatious decoration, baroque sight gags and lavish materials, particularly in her "Turkish Bath" series (1993–98). 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 body of work, which brought Green ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Green'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 Phyllis Green, 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.