File:Arnie Zimmerman Inner City.jpg

Sculpture by Arnold Zimmerman, Vapor 1 (26.5" high, 1992) and Bladder Tongue and Tangle (23.75" high, 1994); Exhibition image, Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection. The image illustrates a key later work in Arnold Zimmerman's career: his collaborative installations with architect Tiago Montepegado, titled Inner City (2005–9). The image shows a detail of one of the work's more than 200 Zimmerman sculptures (right), as well as an installation image from the 2009 RISD Museum exhibition. The handcrafted clay pieces depicted craftspeople, objects, and architectural elements arranged in Manhattan-like grids and scenarios that functioned like film stills or dream images. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by a major museum.

Artist Arnold Zimmerman. Copyright held by the artist.

Arnold Zimmerman

Exhibition image

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later work in Arnold Zimmerman's career: his collaborative work with architect Tiago Montepegado, Inner City (2005–9), which comprised three site-specific installations at Museu da Electricidade (2007, Lisbon), Keramiekmuseum Princessehof (2008, The Netherlands), and the RISD Museum (2009) and incorporated more than 200 Zimmerman sculptures. The handcrafted, closely observed clay pieces depicted a sprawl of Lilliputian craftspeople, objects, and architectural elements arranged by Montepegado in Manhattan-like grids and scenarios—accidents, setbacks, miscommunications, labor and recreation—that functioned like film stills or dream images and explored modern expansionism, individuality and the constraints of contemporary cities, while suggesting a metaphor for the mind. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key later stage and body of work, which brought Zimmerman ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications, and museum commissions. Zimmerman'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 Arnold Zimmerman, 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.