Sentences with phrase «encirclement of»

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.

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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.