Omnipotence Or Death Digital Arts by Wilf Tilley

Fine art paper, 11x8 in
  • This work is an "Open Edition" Digital Arts, Giclée Print / Digital Print
  • Dimensions Several sizes available
  • Several supports available (Fine art paper, Metal Print, Canvas Print)
  • Framing Framing available (Floating Frame + Under Glass, Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
  • Categories Figurative War
The title is after a remark in Henry A Murray’s “Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler”, a declassified document written for the OSS, dated 1943: "He (Hitler) selected a fanatical path for himself which requires as an ending – complete success (omnipotence) or utter failure (death)". I do not know how well Murray is now regarded by professional [...]
The title is after a remark in Henry A Murray’s “Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler”, a declassified document written for the OSS, dated 1943: "He (Hitler) selected a fanatical path for himself which requires as an ending – complete success (omnipotence) or utter failure (death)". I do not know how well Murray is now regarded by professional psychologists however his analysis contains much interesting information and was the inspiration for the ludic model on this website, “A Physician’s Model … Of Epiphanic Idealego”. The parallels between Hitler and Putin – in the latter’s denigration of his Ukrainian opponents as “drug-addicted neo-Nazis” – a tactic used by Hitler to dehumanize his perceived enemies – suggests a comparable state of mind. Like Hitler, Putin is also a man on a mystical, all-or-nothing mission: a creator of a legend rather than a pragmatic politician. Incapable of accepting defeat, he is capable of using nuclear weapons. (The image belongs to the Harajuku Series.)

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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen [...]

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater at The Old Vic. in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear.  “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. He studied English and European Literature with Italian before a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art, and co-organized fundraising exhibitions for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-apartheid movement: the latter at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. An interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute. While at the institute he designed and supervised installation of a brain science exploratorium: "BrainBox". Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan, “The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works", in 2003.  A second retrospective was held at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo in 2017. And a recent portrait, "Manami-san (2023)", was chosen for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, and toured five galleries nationally (2023-2024). As the co-author of several neurological case studies, Wilf addressed a conference in Japan in 2017 on mental time as a neuroscientific phenomenon, using the techniques of classical rhetoric – as described in the Ad Herrenium – to elucidate episodic memory. He is now working on a panel series, A story in silico, connected with personal memory, nostalgia and fabulation, and recently published two short stories about the art world in the Ekphrastic Review (2022 and 2023).

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