Arguably the most novel form of 20th century public art, Land Art is exemplified by the monumental earthworks, such as Spiral Jetty created in Utah (1970) by Robert Smithson, and
the encirclement of eleven Florida islands in pink fabric (1983) by Christo and Jeanne - Claude (b. 1935).
Other famous projects include Christo Javacheff and Jeanne - Claude's
encirclement of eleven Florida islands in pink polypropylene fabric in 1980 - 3, and their 1997 - 8 installation at the Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park in Basel, Switzerland, during which 180 trees were wrapped in woven polyester fabric.
These (frequently massive) land - based interventions or artworks took a variety of forms, from large - scale land artworks like man - made curtains reaching across vast stretches of landscape,
the encirclement of whole islands in coloured fabric, and reshaped waterways and volcanoes, to simple lines of footprints in the earth.
Not exact matches
So it will be necessary to continue with the system
of encirclement, closures, checkpoints, arrests for the purpose
of intelligence gathering, night raids and assassinations
of junior and senior activists.
Those arguing for drastic change tend to make the headlines, but there are many, including many in the military, that promote a traditional line, voicing concerns over US
encirclement and the importance
of the North as a buffer zone to US forces in South Korea.
Political communism failed due to the policy
of encirclement by the Western powers, a war
of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance
of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.
In Israeli - American director Joseph Cedar's masterful film, Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall
of a New York Fixer, a ridiculously expensive pair
of shoes given as a gift leads to a friendship between rising Israeli politician Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi, «
Encirclements») and Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere, «Time Out
of Mind»), an American businessman, consultant and, in the Yiddish expression, «gonif,» defined as a disreputable but not entirely crooked individual.
Bay Area artist Michele Pred's assemblage
of sharp or combustible items collected from airline passengers at San Francisco International Airport captures how the events
of 9/11 transformed innocuous household items into symbols
of threat (
Encirclement, 2003).
Such tactics would theoretically include usage
of infinite loops in game behavior, such as can be employed in «Super Smash TV» (SNES) in the stage entitled «Buffalo Herd Nearby» in which a gamer can evade their enemies for as long as necessary via constant
encirclement, providing the herd count does not fall below a certain threshold.
Although this time the game takes place across the lakes, forests, and snowy plains
of the Eastern Front — it was inspired by the Battle
of Tannenberg in 1914, one
of the most iconic
encirclement battles in history.
This painter absorbs immediate
encirclement, processes it in her imagination by adding psychedelic experience and a mix
of the popular culture referents, and then represents it to the viewers in her artworks.