Performance still of Elizabeth Brown from A Bookmobile for Dreamers (video and opera performance in collaboration with Lothar Osterburg for theremin and recorded sound, 2011). The image illustrates a composition, video and performance work by Elizabeth Brown and artist Lothar Osterburg, exploring reading, libraries, culture and imagination through a dialogue between Brown's theremin playing and imagery rendered in Osterburg's whimsical style. This work was publicly performed and displayed in prominent venues, discussed in major art and daily press publications.

Composer Elizabeth Brown. Copyright held by the artist.

Elizabeth Brown (composer and performer)

Performance still

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work in Elizabeth Brown's career in the 2010s, when she collaborated with artist Lothar Osterburg image on a series composition, video and performance works. In these works, she created several expressive theremin pieces which were matched with Osterburg's imagery and videos exploring creation, imagination and culture. 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 visualize a key phase in her work, which brought new recognition from music and art journals, daily press publications, and music institutions. Brown's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Elizabeth Brown, and the work is time-based, 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.