{"id":1608,"date":"2010-02-28T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/thomas_hobbes_to_do-ho_suh_cog\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T07:02:20","slug":"thomas_hobbes_to_do-ho_suh_cog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/thomas_hobbes_to_do-ho_suh_cog.html","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Hobbes to Do-Ho Suh: cogs in the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Alon Levin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alonlevin.com\/WORKS\/BOOK_COVER.mm.html\"><i>Things Contemporary<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Hobbes\"><i>Leviathan<\/i><\/a> is the title of Thomas Hobbes&#8217; 1651 work on social order and the creation of an idea state. The cover art illustrates a giant made of individuals in the form of a monarch. In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and absolute sovereignty. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ThomashobbesLeviathan.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/ThomashobbesLeviathan.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"302\" width=\"350\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>What a difference 350 years makes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/art21\/artists\/suh\/index.html\">So-Ho Suh<\/a> tackles the same theme as a tragedy; the many sacrificed to prop up the one.<br \/>\n<br \/><i><br \/>Some\/One<\/i>,<i> 2001<br \/>\nStainless steel military dog tags, nickel plated copper sheets, glass fiber reinforced resin, stainless steel structure, rubber sheets<\/i>. <i>Some\/One in the collection of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a>. (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universes-in-universe.de\/car\/venezia\/bien49\/kor\/e-suh.htm\">via<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"suh-1b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/suh-1b.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/>Alon Levin&#8217;s <i>Art for the Masses<\/i> is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambachandrice.com\/home2.html\">Ambach &amp; Rice<\/a> through March 21. Review to follow.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alon Levin&#8217;s Things Contemporary: Leviathan is the title of Thomas Hobbes&#8217; 1651 work on social order and the creation of an idea state. The cover art illustrates a giant made of individuals in the form of a monarch. In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and absolute sovereignty. What a difference 350 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}