{"id":6090,"date":"2014-11-29T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:52","slug":"6090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6091 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst1ny.jpg\" alt=\"Hirst1ny\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst1ny.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst1ny-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst1ny-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>Black Scalpel Cityscapes\u00a0<\/em>is the latest series\u00a0by\u00a0renowned UK artist Damien Hirst. These canvases are\u00a0collages of steel surgical instruments and found metal scraps on black paint. Portrayed from a bird&#8217;s-eye view, each image casts intricate metropolitan systems and patterns into sharp, shiny relief.\u00a0The series<em>\u00a0<\/em>plays with themes of\u00a0repetition, order, death, surgery, sterility and precision and was inspired by contemporary warfare&#8217;s &#8220;surgical strikes&#8221; and &#8220;surgical bombing&#8221; tactics, which pinpoint targets using remote aerial surveillance and mapping.<span class=\"gmw_\">\u00a0<\/span>(<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Damien Hirst\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/damien-hirst-black-scalpel-cityscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6090 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Artist Damien Hirst&#8217;s Black Scalpel Cityscapes&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6092 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst10installation.jpg\" alt=\"Hirst10installation\" width=\"675\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst10installation.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst10installation-105x80.jpg 105w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Hirst10installation-450x340.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Scalpel Cityscapes, the latest series by renowned UK artist Damien Hirst, are collages of steel surgical instruments and found metal scraps on black paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}