{"id":4019,"date":"2010-02-02T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2012-08-16T00:07:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:07:38","slug":"damien-hirst-what-a-fucking-cunt%e2%84%a2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/damien-hirst-what-a-fucking-cunt%e2%84%a2\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Hirst: What a Fucking Cunt\u2122!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/damien-hirst-is-a-fucking-cunt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4020\" title=\"damien hirst is a fucking cunt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/damien-hirst-is-a-fucking-cunt-300x229.jpg?resize=300%2C229\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/damien-hirst-is-a-fucking-cunt.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/damien-hirst-is-a-fucking-cunt.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(photo <a href=\"http:\/\/cyanatrendland.com\/2010\/01\/31\/damien-hirst-end-of-an-era-opening\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>DAMIEN HIRST<br \/>\nEnd of an Era, 2009<br \/>\nBull&#8217;s head, gold, gold-plated steel, glass and formaldehyde solution with a Carrara marble plinth<br \/>\n84 x 67 5\/16 x 38 5\/16 inches overall (213.4 x 171 x 97.2 cm)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The exhibition takes its title from the central sculpture in the exhibition, a severed bull&#8217;s head with golden horns and crowned with a solid gold disc. Suspended in formaldehyde and encased in a golden vitrine, this totemic sculpture acts as a powerful coda to <em>The Golden Calf<\/em> (2008). <em>End of an Era<\/em> proffers a sacrificial head, here dismembered from the majestic body of the earlier sculpture. While The Golden Calf symbolized the worshipping of a false idol, with <em>End of an Era<\/em> (2009) Hirst demystifies the biblical tale and, by extension, debunks his own myth-making.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God, what a cunt.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo via) DAMIEN HIRST End of an Era, 2009 Bull&#8217;s head, gold, gold-plated steel, glass and formaldehyde solution with a Carrara marble plinth 84 x 67 5\/16 x 38 5\/16 inches overall (213.4 x 171 x 97.2 cm) &#8220;The exhibition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/damien-hirst-what-a-fucking-cunt%e2%84%a2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,8,7],"tags":[644,694],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-12P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}