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Episode 40: Damien Hirst – A Shark’s Tale

Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App (just search for “Stuff about Things Art History”) or by clicking HERE.  Happy listening!

Sources:

  • Barnbrook, Damien Hirst: Pictures from the Charles Saatchi Collection. New York: Harry Abrams/Booth Clibborn, 2001.
  • Davies, Kerrie. “The Great White Art Hunter.” The Australian, April 16, 2010. 
  • Hirst, Damien and Gordon Burn. On the Way to Work. New York: Universe Publishing, 2001.
  • Hirst, Damien and Robert Violette, eds. I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, With Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 1997.
  • Kausikan, Catherine. “Damien Hirst Loves Death and Hates Good Art.” The Yale Herald, October 28, 2021. 
  • Miller, Norman. “Inherent Vice: What to Do with Decaying Masterpieces?” BBC, July 25, 2022.
  • Ruiz, Christina. “Damien Hirst in Talks to Replace Rotting Shark.” Art Newspaper 15, no. 171 (2006-07), 3. 
  • Saltz, Jerry. “The Emperor’s New Paintings.” Artnet Magazine, April 6, 2005. 
  • Shea, Christopher. “Report Says Hirst Works Leaked Unsafe Fumes.” New York Times, April 22, 2016. 
  • Stanska, Zuzanna. “The Story of Damien Hirst’s Famous Shark.” Daily Art Magazine, April 10, 2021. 
  • Thompson, Don. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. London: Aurum Press Ltd, 2008. 
  • Urban, Andrea. Manipulation and the Contemporary Art Market: An Examination of Charles Saatchi. London: Sotheby’s Institute, 2003.
  • Vogel, Carol. “Swimming with Famous Dead Sharks.” New York Times, October 1, 2006.   
  • Yabroff, Jennie. “Art with a Real Bite: Damien Hirst’s Shark Arrives in New York.” Newsweek 150, no. 19 (2007), 63.

Images:

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, shark, formaldehyde, steel, glass, in the private collection of Steven Cohen [image source: ArtHive]
Damien Hirst posing with The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living at the Tate Modern in 2012 [image source: Kerim Okten/dpa via ArtStation]
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living on display at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, with its original shark specimen [image source: Richard Levine/Alamy via The New Yorker]
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living on display at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, with its original shark specimen [image source: DOUG KANTER/AFP via Getty Images via The Independent]
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living [image source: The Art Newspaper]
Damien Hirst, sketch of the Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, pencil on greaseproof paper, 2006 [image source: Bonhams]
Australian shark hunter Vic Hislop with one of his catches [image source: Medium]
Vic Hislop’s Shark Show (closed in 2016) [image source: Medium]
The Great White Shark caught by Hislop in 1987. The shark was 20 feet 8 inches long and weighed 5085 pounds [image source: Victorian Collections — note that the image is available on Google Images but when you click on the website link you get an error]
Images from the “renovation” in 2006 [image source: Steve Forrest/Impact-Visual; A.C. International Arts Services; Jonathan Player for The New York Times]
Eddie Saunders with the taxidermied shark in his electrical shop [image source: Stuckists]
A group of artists known as “Stuckists” released various materials accusing Hirst of plagiarizing Saunders shark. Note that the above photo of the shark in Saunders shop is how it was originally displayed. The image here places that shark behind a tripartite window, deliberately mimicking the tank of Hirst’s work [image source: Stuckism]
Rawrrrrrr! (no, sharks don’t roar–just let me have my fun) [image source: Confluence]

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