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On a Wing and a Prayer

On a Wing and a Prayer. Giovanni Aloi Editor in Chief of Antennae Project London Editor of Whitehot Magazine. Lecturer in Visual Culture: Goldsmiths University of London Queen Mary University of London. The Open University Tate Galleries Christie's Education.

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On a Wing and a Prayer

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  1. On a Wing and a Prayer Giovanni Aloi Editor in Chief of Antennae Project London Editor of WhitehotMagazine Lecturer in Visual Culture:Goldsmiths University of LondonQueen Mary University of London The Open UniversityTate Galleries Christie's Education Sotheby's Institute of Artwww.antennae.org.ukwww.whitehotmagazine.com

  2. Damien Hirst, The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

  3. POWER/KNOWLEDGE RELATIONSHIPS

  4. GALLERIES MUSEUMS AUDIENCES ART MARKETS ART MAGAZINES BOOK PUBLISHERS CURATORS COLLECTORS ACADEMICS

  5. GALLERIES MUSEUMS AUDIENCES ART MARKETS ART MAGAZINES BOOK PUBLISHERS CURATORS COLLECTORS ACADEMICS VALIDATION OF ARTWORK =

  6. VISIBILITY OF ANIMAL DEATH IN ART

  7. Damien Hirst, The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991

  8. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-1506

  9. Damien Hirst, Detail of butterfly wing panting, 2007

  10. Mat Collishaw, Insecticide #14, 2010

  11. ARTWORK AS MANIFESTATION OF INTERMINGLING DISCOURSES

  12. MYTHOLOGY

  13. DossoDossi, Jupiter Painting Butterflies with Mercury and Virtue, detail, 1522-24

  14. Antonio Canova, Cupid and Psyche, detail, 1796

  15. MYTHOLOGY CHRISTIANITY

  16. Workshop of Albrecht Düre, The Madonna with the Iris, 1500-10

  17. Workshop of Albrecht Düre, The Madonna with the Iris, (detail), 1500-10

  18. Workshop of Albrecht Düre, The Madonna with the Iris, (detail), 1500-10

  19. MYTHOLOGY CHRISTIANITY ART

  20. Rachel Ruysch, A Still with Flowers, Butterflies and a Lizard in a Dell, early 1700s

  21. Laurens Craen, Still Life with a Swallowtail Butterfly, detail, 1653

  22. MYTHOLOGY CHRISTIANITY ART NATURAL HISTORY

  23. Thomas Moffet, InsectorumSiveMinimorumAnimaliumTheatrum, 1634

  24. MYTHOLOGY CHRISTIANITY ART NATURAL HISTORY CAPITALISM

  25. RE-EMERGENCE OF BUTTERFLIES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

  26. LONG ARTISTIC ABSENCE BEGAN WITH THE VICTORIAN PERIOD…

  27. Jan DavidszHeem, Festoon of Fruits and Flowers, 1670

  28. …IT COINCIDED WITH THE COLLECTING OF TROPICAL SPECIMENS…

  29. Arthur Twidle, from Beautiful Butterflies of the Tropics, London R.T.S., 1920

  30. …IT CONTINUED THROUGH THE RISE OF PHOTOGRAPHY…

  31. Example of b/w photography of butterflies which circulated until the 1970s

  32. … AND THE DRAMATIC DWINDLING OF BUTTERFLY POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.

  33. Vogt, Moreno, Countryman, Butterflies in Space Teacher’s Guide, 2009

  34. FLATTENING OF NATURE

  35. Damien Hirst, Detail of White Symphony in White Major, 2006

  36. Mat Collishaw, Insecticide #24, 2009

  37. Piero Andrea Mattioli, PedacijDioscoridisAnazarbei de MedicaMateria, 1565

  38. William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, 1803

  39. Herbarium, 17th century. Pre-Linnean herbarium, 1600. Plate: Doronicumamericanumlacinato folio.

  40. UlisseAldrovandi, De AnimalibusInsectis, 1602

  41. Thomas Moffet, InsectorumSiveMinimorumAnimaliumTheatrum, 1634

  42. Laurens Craen, Still Life with a Swallowtail Butterfly, detail, 1653

  43. Maria SybillaMerian, coloured copper engraving from Metamorphosis InsectorumSurinamensium, 1705

  44. If one wishes to kill butterflies quickly, then one must hold the point of a darning needle in a flame, thus making it hot or glowing red, and stick it into the butterfly. They die immediately with no damage to their wings […]. (Merian in Neri : 2011, p. 161)

  45. Maria SybillaMerian, coloured copper engraving from Metamorphosis InsectorumSurinamensium, 1705

  46. Victorian Naturalists Ernst Haeckel and Nikolai Miklucho

  47. UlisseAldrovandi, De AnimalibusInsectis, 1602

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