Antennae #49 Making Nature
ISBN: 978-68-88468-89-7
Format: 21.0x28.0cm
Liczba stron: 224
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2020 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<div title="Page 11"> <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">This issue of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans'; font-style: italic;">Antennae, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">and the next, are informed by the exhibition </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans'; font-style: italic;">Making Nature: How We See Animals </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">the exhibition curated by Honor Beddard at Wellcome Collection in London between the 1st of December 2016 and the 21st of May 2017. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">This first installment, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans'; font-style: italic;">Making Nature, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">which takes its title from the exhibition, looks at the construction of nature as a cultural pursuit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on issues of visibility and invisibility, both cultural and ecological, to critically appraise</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';"> the methodological approaches that have defined the philosophies of the discipline. Technolo</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">gies of visibility like taxidermy, dioramas, macro-photography, and illustration are juxtaposed to </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">highlight the complicity of art and science in the production of fictional narratives about the world we </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'OpenSans';">live in. </span> </p></div><p> </p>