Deceitful Moon by Amalia Pica, which plays on moon-related conspiracy theories, on show now as part of Project Space at the Hayward Gallery Photograph: PRTarget 090313 977 (2009) Karen Russo from the Deceitful Moon exhibition Photograph: PREscape Vehicle No. 6 by Simon Faithfull, from his exhibition Gravity Sucks at the British Film Institute, LondonPhotograph: PR
William Blake's etching, I Want! I Want! (1793) documents the stages of man's life and ambitionPhotograph: The Fitzwilliam MuseumRabbit's Moon by Kenneth Anger, was a landmark in experimental cinema on its release in 1950Photograph: PRAleksandra Mir transformed a Dutch beach into a lunar crater for her ambitious artwork, First Woman on the Moon (1999) Photograph: PRTwo Men on a Seashore (1835) by German artist Caspar David Friedrich, is an imaginative representation of the great unknownPhotograph: Alexander Burkatovski/CorbisJoseph Wright's painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), demonstrates the formation of a vacuumPhotograph: Corbis
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