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... This chapter considers the artist in the studio and the potential emptiness of the space. It proposes encircling as a model for perception and a method for working with surplus. The author collects notes for monstrous portraits and the imagination. Kristan Horton Sligo Heads...

... , for which the heads encircling the Old World represent and indicate the cardinal directions. Similarly, the View depicts Venice as the fulcrum of the world—not only a city-world but the city-world of Renaissance Europe. The urban space of Venice is conceived as a realistic portrait of the city...

... This piece about the women’s peace camp encircling a U.S. cruise missile base in England in the 1980s has a new introduction connecting that earlier, effective, long-term demonstration to the work of Occupy Wall Street. Greenham was a political location of extraordinary diversity and invention...

... In mid-1781, Julián Apaza, who took the name Tupaj Katari (Resplendent Serpent), was at the head of tens of thousands of Aymara-speaking community troops from across the altiplano and the highland valleys. Encircling the city of La Paz, he waged a punishing siege that pinned down the meager...

... the more general description of one who is restless, willing to live for a time without any settled context, a sojourner who’s always leaving. picaro sojourners restless feminism feminist picaresque This piece about the women’s peace camp encircling a U.S. cruise missile base in England...

... of the principal winds, a concept borrowed from the world maps of Ptolemy’s Geography , for which the heads encircling the Old World represent and indicate the cardinal directions. Similarly, the View depicts Venice as the fulcrum of the world—not only a city-world but the city-world of Renaissance Europe...

...-speaking community troops from across the altiplano and the highland valleys. Encircling the city of La Paz, he waged a punishing siege that pinned down the meager Spanish forces under the command of Sebastián de Segurola. Katari sent letters to authorities in the city, calling on them to surrender...