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Sculpture by Bonnie Collura, Death of the Virgin, detail, 2006). The image illustrates a key early mid-career of work by Bonnie Collura in the 2000s, when she increasingly abstracted, hybrid monochrome sculptures that reviewers described as "dramatically abject" portrayals of ecstasy or distress suggesting souls entrapped in terrestrial chaos or angels expelled into corporeality as monsters and twisted freaks of nature. This image presents the high level of detail in Collura's work, from a sculptural work that drew on Baroque sculpture, Disney animation and myth to depicted a large-eared, shattered figure on its back atop a vertical mass, as if after a great fall. 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 Bonnie Collura. Copyright held by the artist.

Bonnie Collura

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work by Bonnie Collura in the later 2000s: her "hybrid," increasingly abstracted, monochrome sculptures melding barely recognizable human and animal forms, branches, classical drapery and commedia dell'arte costuming, all seemingly embattled to materialize out of central, amorphous masses. These works responding to such art-historical issues as the disavowal of referentiality and narrative by modernism, postmodern information overload, and the collapse of various universal distinctions (e.g., organism and machine, human and animal), and explored open-ended storytelling and world-making, feminist critique and mythological traditions. 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 body of work, which brought Collura ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Collura'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 Bonnie Collura, 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.