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An old metal chamber dominates the room, looking like an unpeopled iron lung.

Wolves, moose, boars, badgers, and wild horses teem in the unpeopled wilderness surrounding the abandoned community.

He introduced the "road" idea with unpeopled film, landscape hurtling past as if seen from a rushing car.

The town may be dramatically unpeopled, but everyone seems to have mutts and the means to keep them coifed.

Leaders in those Yugoslav wars saw ethnic cleansing as the best way to create new nation-states unpeopled by troublesome minorities.

His illustrations often carry the same motifs as the music, with images of lonely parking lots, unpeopled motels and densely-colored shadow worlds.

And in the unpeopled photos, with just a storefront or restaurant facade, the windows and signs appear to be longing for human contact.

Using a multi-step photocopying process, Valenzuela projects abstract lines onto unpeopled desert scenes — hinting at houses, governmental offices, and memorial structures yet to be built.

The photos of course feature a number of relatively unpopulated beaches, landscapes, boats, piers, and lighthouses, and there are some unpeopled advertisements, posters, and postcards as well.

Not all the photos in Dark City conform to this conceit; that is, some of Saville's locations remain "places," fully inhabiting themselves even if anonymous-looking and unpeopled.

The serene, unpeopled places in Leinkauf's footage ooze a tranquil, meditative vibe; neatly geometric, their architectural forms and the play of light upon their surfaces create uncluttered, abstract images.

New Jersey's coastal flatland stretches for miles, and the vast container fields of Elizabeth and Newark are unpeopled cities in themselves, with their long, echoing canyons of containers stacked high.

If I could afford to buy an Arbus, I would pick a landscape, or a roomscape—one of those unpeopled places where our fellow-citizens have been, and will come again.

If anything, the movie is mapped out with such controlling care that it occasionally feels airless and unpeopled, leaving us with practical objections: Why do we so rarely see the rest of the staff?

"Bierstadt presents a certain way of understanding nature as beautiful and unpeopled and full of animals and grain and enduring and static, and Hegarty takes that same image and literally dematerializes it," he said.

Inching my Communist relic through the unpeopled, snowbound vastness of the Eurasian boreal forest — the largest terrestrial eco-region on earth, our planet's default state on dry land — was a journey into unplumbed personal depths.

At other times, she shot unpeopled places that, through her eyes, came alive: an empty snack bar, for example, in which two chairs seemed still engaged in the conversation of the couple who had vacated them.

Oh to live in the world one sees from the train — empty, unpeopled, only a horse in the field, one car at the crossing, and a woman at the end of a garden taking down washing.

Frederick's paintings are unpeopled; it's the writers' job to bring the actors onto his bleak stages, and they do so with skill and pleasure, moving for the most part beyond the given scene and details of the paintings.

But the scrum also includes four versions of the artist, including one of her lying on her face, weeping, and another who is painting an unpeopled view of mountains while standing in a hole in the ground (she's starting from behind).

" In the memoir's most rapturous passages, which recall Albert Camus's essays on his Algerian childhood, Matar evokes his rediscovery of the Libyan landscape, the luminous Mediterranean coast and the austerity of the interior, where the earth "stood as all the unpeopled landscapes of Libya stand, clean and witnessing.

Like her predecessors, Zittel's material is also the Southwestern desert, but she isn't a land artist in the traditional mode: Instead of moving earth with giant machines, or leaving hulking, unpeopled abstractions amid the dust, she employs this vast landscape to explore and challenge the quotidian functions of our existence.

For thirty-two years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been working on a project that he calls "The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity," a collection of some seven hundred black-and-white photographs that he makes from remote, forbidding, largely unpeopled, all-but-forgotten outcroppings, on five continents and at both poles, along the perimeter of the Atlantic basin.

The museum cafe was closed for renovations, and we ended up instead buying burgers from a stand outside the city walls, beyond the stately but unpeopled Howard Gardens (fashioned from the city's former moat) in a municipal park of a kind familiar to me from my childhood in Sydney, Australia: It's a British convention, the manicured open space with a green kiosk selling snacks and a separate structure housing well-kept public loos.

This was the period during which most of Zeeland appears to have been submerged. The area was and for several centuries would remain almost unpeopled.

Cecile Gray Bazelon (born September 25, 1927, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American painter living in New York City. Bazelon is best known for her perspectives of unpeopled New York cityscapes, and her depictions of interior spaces framed in geometric patterns.

Other artists remained in internal exile. Otto Dix retreated to the countryside to paint unpeopled landscapes in a meticulous style that would not provoke the authorities.Karcher 1988, p. 206. The Reichskulturkammer forbade artists such as Edgar Ende and Emil Nolde from purchasing painting materials.

Waiting for the unexpected, avoidance of contact prints: Kanda, "Kikai Hiroo no Tōkyō". Samples from this series appeared in various magazines from at least as early as 1976.See for example "Nagi" (凪, Calm), Camera Mainichi, June 1976, pp. 119–25. Each photograph is simply captioned with the approximate address (in Japanese script) and year. Tōkyō meiro / Tokyo Labyrinth (1999) presents portraits of unpeopled spaces in Tokyo (and occasionally the adjacent town of Kawasaki).

In 1479 (Samvat 1535) one of his descendants, Rana Visal Dev, conquered Morvada, slaying its Chavad chief Magaji, and since then Kanji's forefathers have held Morvada. Kanji, before his death (1786), succeeded in making himself independent of his former patron. He was succeeded by his brother Harbhamji. About this time (1819), Tharad being much harassed and almost unpeopled by the raids of Khosas and other desert plunderers, the chief Harbhamji approached the British.

In the 1920s Joseph Gray and his family moved to Westbrook, Broughty Ferry, which had both a studio and a printing room. Before the move Gray had worked on paintings of wartime subjects, but here he hoped to find new inspiration elsewhere and overseas, travelling to the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. He began etching serene, mostly unpeopled landscape scenes. Gray's etchings and drypoints were widely exhibited and reproduced, and sold well both at home and in America.

Simultaneously he gave up formal experiments and decided to paint landscape applying the traditional artistic techniques. The nature in Żywiecki's paintings exists apart from man and is free from human influence. As Madeyski comments, Aleksander Żywiecki “paints unpeopled landscapes, unspoiled by the once fashionable or even indispensable prop or vestige of human activity.”Madeyski 73 In his works nature is barren, wild and it appears in various moods; sometimes it is hostile and brutally dramatic, sometimes calm, mild, even idyllic.

Armed with only a camera, he entered neighborhoods such as Hillbrow which had most dramatically shifted from Art Deco affluence in the mid-to-late 20th century to poverty and crime in the early 21st. Niebuhr photographed the foyers of the lovely old buildings and then painted them in oils, taking the perspective of the (somewhat symbolic) security guards protecting the edifices and their residents. These accurate and objective paintings, unpeopled but resonant with history, create a sense of melancholy around the city's decline.

In 1992 she began her series of paintings "Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers". Intensely personal, the vividly colored works portray unpeopled scenes where women's clothing (dresses, aprons, corsets, gloves and stockings), furniture (including chairs, beds and vanities) and antique sculptures (including the Nike of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo) are surrogates for the artist. Embued with a life of their own, they enact the emotional responses of the artist to her illness. These paintings could be shockingly forthright.

There were no permanent settlements in Badger Township prior to European settlement. The territory was traversed by occasional Ojibwe and Dakota hunting expeditions and may have been a seasonal food-gathering area for Ojibwe families, but was otherwise unpeopled until the mid-19th century. Indian artifacts, including grinding rocks, were excavated near Badger Creek in the SW 1/4 of Section 8 in the mid-1960s, indicating a periodic visitation pattern but no permanent residency. Bison roamed over Badger Township into the 1870s, and were actively pursued by Indians and Metis from the Pembina Settlements.

Osterburg mines persistent images in his (and collective) memory, which he recreates in quick, intuitively built models devoid of people, stripped of superfluous detail, and made with humble, found materials: toothpicks, twigs, vegetables, glass doorknobs, broken umbrellas, books, refuse. He places the unpeopled models in carefully selected, sometimes far-flung settings (beaches, lakes or rivers, cities), then photographs them through a magnifying glass or macro lens so they appear life-size from a human vantage point, drawing viewers in as lone spectators.Spear, Peggy. "Ship Shape," Diablo Arts Journal, January-March 2001.

"There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles in either direction. ...One may ride hereabouts and not see ten human beings." ...these unpeopled deserts, these rusty mounds of barrenness..."(Chapter 46)Chapter 46. These descriptions of the often quoted non-arable areas few people would inhabit are as Twain says, "by contrast" to occasional scenes of arable land and productive agriculture: "The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile.

The term Desert of Wales has been used to describe the area since before 1860 when the following was written by John Henry Cliffe: > The locality we were now traversing is one of the most untamed and desolate > in either division of the Principality; it has indeed with perfect truth > been called the "great desert of Wales." Vast sweeping ranges of hills with > round tops, add to the dreary aspect of this nearly unpeopled > region...Solitudes of Wales Travel is limited to narrow roads, forestry tracks, footpaths and bridleways. It is a sparsely populated area, consisting largely of rolling hills, gorges and steep valleys with ancient native Welsh oak forest.

1505, now in Ambrosiana) is in fragmentary state.Biblioteca Ambrosiana Before 1508, he designed the tapestries of the Months for Gian Giacom Trivulzio (now in Castello Sforzesco). The Saint Michael Altar (or Enthroned Madonna and child with Saint Ambrogio and Saint Michael) at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana,Biblioteca Ambrosiana notable for the foreshortened slain man (representing an Arian heretic") before a tough-looking Saint Ambrose and giant dead frog (symbolizing Satan) with Saint Michael in the foreground and impassive saints, dates to after 1510. Freedberg sees in this painting a Leonardo-based impulse to circumscribe the painting to a world where near-abstract rigorous geometry, characterized by "looming silhouettes of imagined and unpeopled architecture, constructed with a rule and square, take increasing prominence.

"Tokyo Polka " was a series of essays, each illustrated with photographs (accessed 24 February 2006; as of 28 May 2007, the essays and photographs had been removed, leaving only a short description; earlier versions do not seem to be available via the Wayback Machine.) Continues in "Yurari-yurayura-ki ". — presents more of the same. Between a single nude in a shopfront display from 1978 and a very young boy photographed in December 2006 (the latter appearing to share the Sensō-ji backdrop of Persona), are square monochrome views of Tokyo and Kawasaki, compositions that seem casual and rather disorderly, mostly of unpeopled scenes showing signs of intensive and recent use. The book also has Kikai's essays from "Tokyo Polka", essays that dwell on the inhabitants of Tokyo as observed during walks or on the train.

Ulysses turns his attention from himself and his kingdom and speaks of ports, seas, and his mariners. The strains of discontent and weakness in old age remain throughout the poem, but Tennyson finally leaves Ulysses "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" (70), recalling the Dantesque damnable desire for knowledge beyond all bounds. The words of Dante's character as he exhorts his men to the journey find parallel in those of Tennyson's Ulysses, who calls his men to join him on one last voyage. Quoting Dante's Ulisse: 'O brothers', said I, 'who are come despite Ten thousand perils to the West, let none, While still our senses hold the vigil slight Remaining to us ere our course is run, Be willing to forgo experience Of the unpeopled world beyond the sun.

Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness. "On walks in the unpeopled parts of the suburbs," Winkler writes, "I’ve witnessed the same wild creatures, struggles for survival, and natural beauty that we associate with true wilderness."Winkler, Robert. (2003). Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness. National Geographic . Attempts have been made, as in the Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers Act, to distinguish "wild" from various levels of human influence: in the Act, "wild rivers" are "not impounded", "usually not accessible except by trail", and their watersheds and shorelines are "essentially primitive".Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers Act (P.L. 1277, Act No. 283 as amended by Act 110, May 7, 1982) Another source of criticism is that the criteria for wilderness designation is vague and open to interpretation.

Eoghan Rua was born in 1748 in, Meentogues, Gneeveguilla, Sliabh Luachra, a mountainous part of County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland. He was from a once-prominent sept that like so many others gradually lost its land and its leaders in the successive British conquests of Ireland. By the time of his birth, most of the native Irish in the southwest had been reduced to landless poverty in a "houseless and unpeopled," mountainous region. But the landlord was MacCarthy Mór, one of the few native Irish Chiefs of the Name to have retained some power, and a distant relative of the Ó Súilleabháin sept; and in Sliabh Luachra there was at the time one of the last "classical schools" of Irish poetry, descended from the ancient, rigorous schools that had trained bards and poets in the days of Irish domination.

In 1970 he left Guyana for Canada to attend university; he obtained a BA degree in English (First-Class Hons.) at Lakehead University, an MA degree in English (thesis on American poet Sylvia Plath) at Queen's University, and a Master of Public Administration degree also at Queen's University. He was twice admitted to the PhD Program at York University. In his early years in Canada he worked in a variety of summer jobs to pay his way through university, most importantly as a tree-planter in the Canadian forests around Lake Superior, and lived in bush camps with Native Canadians and others, sometimes six weeks at a time. It was this experience that is part of the process of the drawing of imaginative connections between Guyana and Canada, both with large "unpeopled" hinterlands and surviving native peoples.

From the chapter on lions in William Smellie's 1781 English translation of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle : :The lions of Mount Atlas, the summit of which is sometimes covered with snow, have neither the courage, the strength, nor the ferocity of the lions of Biledulgerid or of Zaara, whose plains are covered with burning sands. It is chiefly in these fervid deserts that we meet with those terrible lions, who are the dread of travellers, and the scourge of the neighbouring provinces. :In the vast deserts of Zaara, in those that seem to separate two very different races of men, the Negroes and the Moors, in the unpeopled regions that lie about the territories of the Hottentos , and, in general, in all those southern parts of Africa and Asia, which man has disdained to inhabit, the lions are still very numerous, and continue in their natural state. This is a description of the English Mastiff from the Cynographia Britannica, published in 1800.

An old metal chamber dominates the room, looking like an unpeopled iron lung. from Wired
Wolves, moose, boars, badgers, and wild horses teem in the unpeopled wilderness surrounding the abandoned community. from Vice
He introduced the "road" idea with unpeopled film, landscape hurtling past as if seen from a rushing car. from The New York Times
The town may be dramatically unpeopled, but everyone seems to have mutts and the means to keep them coifed. from The New York Times
Leaders in those Yugoslav wars saw ethnic cleansing as the best way to create new nation-states unpeopled by troublesome minorities. from Economist
His illustrations often carry the same motifs as the music, with images of lonely parking lots, unpeopled motels and densely-colored shadow worlds. from Vice
And in the unpeopled photos, with just a storefront or restaurant facade, the windows and signs appear to be longing for human contact. from The New York Times
Using a multi-step photocopying process, Valenzuela projects abstract lines onto unpeopled desert scenes — hinting at houses, governmental offices, and memorial structures yet to be built. from Hyperallergic
The photos of course feature a number of relatively unpopulated beaches, landscapes, boats, piers, and lighthouses, and there are some unpeopled advertisements, posters, and postcards as well. from Hyperallergic
Not all the photos in Dark City conform to this conceit; that is, some of Saville's locations remain "places," fully inhabiting themselves even if anonymous-looking and unpeopled. from Hyperallergic
The serene, unpeopled places in Leinkauf's footage ooze a tranquil, meditative vibe; neatly geometric, their architectural forms and the play of light upon their surfaces create uncluttered, abstract images. from Hyperallergic
New Jersey's coastal flatland stretches for miles, and the vast container fields of Elizabeth and Newark are unpeopled cities in themselves, with their long, echoing canyons of containers stacked high. from New Yorker
If I could afford to buy an Arbus, I would pick a landscape, or a roomscape—one of those unpeopled places where our fellow-citizens have been, and will come again. from New Yorker
If anything, the movie is mapped out with such controlling care that it occasionally feels airless and unpeopled, leaving us with practical objections: Why do we so rarely see the rest of the staff? from New Yorker
"Bierstadt presents a certain way of understanding nature as beautiful and unpeopled and full of animals and grain and enduring and static, and Hegarty takes that same image and literally dematerializes it," he said. from The New York Times
Inching my Communist relic through the unpeopled, snowbound vastness of the Eurasian boreal forest — the largest terrestrial eco-region on earth, our planet's default state on dry land — was a journey into unplumbed personal depths. from The New York Times
At other times, she shot unpeopled places that, through her eyes, came alive: an empty snack bar, for example, in which two chairs seemed still engaged in the conversation of the couple who had vacated them. from The New York Times
Oh to live in the world one sees from the train — empty, unpeopled, only a horse in the field, one car at the crossing, and a woman at the end of a garden taking down washing. from The New York Times
Frederick's paintings are unpeopled; it's the writers' job to bring the actors onto his bleak stages, and they do so with skill and pleasure, moving for the most part beyond the given scene and details of the paintings. from Hyperallergic
But the scrum also includes four versions of the artist, including one of her lying on her face, weeping, and another who is painting an unpeopled view of mountains while standing in a hole in the ground (she's starting from behind). from The New York Times
" In the memoir's most rapturous passages, which recall Albert Camus's essays on his Algerian childhood, Matar evokes his rediscovery of the Libyan landscape, the luminous Mediterranean coast and the austerity of the interior, where the earth "stood as all the unpeopled landscapes of Libya stand, clean and witnessing. from The New York Times
Like her predecessors, Zittel's material is also the Southwestern desert, but she isn't a land artist in the traditional mode: Instead of moving earth with giant machines, or leaving hulking, unpeopled abstractions amid the dust, she employs this vast landscape to explore and challenge the quotidian functions of our existence. from The New York Times
For thirty-two years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been working on a project that he calls "The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity," a collection of some seven hundred black-and-white photographs that he makes from remote, forbidding, largely unpeopled, all-but-forgotten outcroppings, on five continents and at both poles, along the perimeter of the Atlantic basin. from New Yorker
The museum cafe was closed for renovations, and we ended up instead buying burgers from a stand outside the city walls, beyond the stately but unpeopled Howard Gardens (fashioned from the city's former moat) in a municipal park of a kind familiar to me from my childhood in Sydney, Australia: It's a British convention, the manicured open space with a green kiosk selling snacks and a separate structure housing well-kept public loos. from The New York Times
This was the period during which most of Zeeland appears to have been submerged. The area was and for several centuries would remain almost unpeopled.
Cecile Gray Bazelon (born September 25, 1927, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American painter living in New York City. Bazelon is best known for her perspectives of unpeopled New York cityscapes, and her depictions of interior spaces framed in geometric patterns.
Other artists remained in internal exile. Otto Dix retreated to the countryside to paint unpeopled landscapes in a meticulous style that would not provoke the authorities.Karcher 1988, p. 206. The Reichskulturkammer forbade artists such as Edgar Ende and Emil Nolde from purchasing painting materials.
Waiting for the unexpected, avoidance of contact prints: Kanda, "Kikai Hiroo no Tōkyō". Samples from this series appeared in various magazines from at least as early as 1976.See for example "Nagi" (凪, Calm), Camera Mainichi, June 1976, pp. 119–25. Each photograph is simply captioned with the approximate address (in Japanese script) and year. Tōkyō meiro / Tokyo Labyrinth (1999) presents portraits of unpeopled spaces in Tokyo (and occasionally the adjacent town of Kawasaki).
In 1479 (Samvat 1535) one of his descendants, Rana Visal Dev, conquered Morvada, slaying its Chavad chief Magaji, and since then Kanji's forefathers have held Morvada. Kanji, before his death (1786), succeeded in making himself independent of his former patron. He was succeeded by his brother Harbhamji. About this time (1819), Tharad being much harassed and almost unpeopled by the raids of Khosas and other desert plunderers, the chief Harbhamji approached the British.
In the 1920s Joseph Gray and his family moved to Westbrook, Broughty Ferry, which had both a studio and a printing room. Before the move Gray had worked on paintings of wartime subjects, but here he hoped to find new inspiration elsewhere and overseas, travelling to the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. He began etching serene, mostly unpeopled landscape scenes. Gray's etchings and drypoints were widely exhibited and reproduced, and sold well both at home and in America.
Simultaneously he gave up formal experiments and decided to paint landscape applying the traditional artistic techniques. The nature in Żywiecki's paintings exists apart from man and is free from human influence. As Madeyski comments, Aleksander Żywiecki “paints unpeopled landscapes, unspoiled by the once fashionable or even indispensable prop or vestige of human activity.”Madeyski 73 In his works nature is barren, wild and it appears in various moods; sometimes it is hostile and brutally dramatic, sometimes calm, mild, even idyllic.
Armed with only a camera, he entered neighborhoods such as Hillbrow which had most dramatically shifted from Art Deco affluence in the mid-to-late 20th century to poverty and crime in the early 21st. Niebuhr photographed the foyers of the lovely old buildings and then painted them in oils, taking the perspective of the (somewhat symbolic) security guards protecting the edifices and their residents. These accurate and objective paintings, unpeopled but resonant with history, create a sense of melancholy around the city's decline.
In 1992 she began her series of paintings "Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers". Intensely personal, the vividly colored works portray unpeopled scenes where women's clothing (dresses, aprons, corsets, gloves and stockings), furniture (including chairs, beds and vanities) and antique sculptures (including the Nike of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo) are surrogates for the artist. Embued with a life of their own, they enact the emotional responses of the artist to her illness. These paintings could be shockingly forthright.
There were no permanent settlements in Badger Township prior to European settlement. The territory was traversed by occasional Ojibwe and Dakota hunting expeditions and may have been a seasonal food-gathering area for Ojibwe families, but was otherwise unpeopled until the mid-19th century. Indian artifacts, including grinding rocks, were excavated near Badger Creek in the SW 1/4 of Section 8 in the mid-1960s, indicating a periodic visitation pattern but no permanent residency. Bison roamed over Badger Township into the 1870s, and were actively pursued by Indians and Metis from the Pembina Settlements.
Osterburg mines persistent images in his (and collective) memory, which he recreates in quick, intuitively built models devoid of people, stripped of superfluous detail, and made with humble, found materials: toothpicks, twigs, vegetables, glass doorknobs, broken umbrellas, books, refuse. He places the unpeopled models in carefully selected, sometimes far-flung settings (beaches, lakes or rivers, cities), then photographs them through a magnifying glass or macro lens so they appear life-size from a human vantage point, drawing viewers in as lone spectators.Spear, Peggy. "Ship Shape," Diablo Arts Journal, January-March 2001.
"There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles in either direction. ...One may ride hereabouts and not see ten human beings." ...these unpeopled deserts, these rusty mounds of barrenness..."(Chapter 46)Chapter 46. These descriptions of the often quoted non-arable areas few people would inhabit are as Twain says, "by contrast" to occasional scenes of arable land and productive agriculture: "The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile.
The term Desert of Wales has been used to describe the area since before 1860 when the following was written by John Henry Cliffe: > The locality we were now traversing is one of the most untamed and desolate > in either division of the Principality; it has indeed with perfect truth > been called the "great desert of Wales." Vast sweeping ranges of hills with > round tops, add to the dreary aspect of this nearly unpeopled > region...Solitudes of Wales Travel is limited to narrow roads, forestry tracks, footpaths and bridleways. It is a sparsely populated area, consisting largely of rolling hills, gorges and steep valleys with ancient native Welsh oak forest.
1505, now in Ambrosiana) is in fragmentary state.Biblioteca Ambrosiana Before 1508, he designed the tapestries of the Months for Gian Giacom Trivulzio (now in Castello Sforzesco). The Saint Michael Altar (or Enthroned Madonna and child with Saint Ambrogio and Saint Michael) at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana,Biblioteca Ambrosiana notable for the foreshortened slain man (representing an Arian heretic") before a tough-looking Saint Ambrose and giant dead frog (symbolizing Satan) with Saint Michael in the foreground and impassive saints, dates to after 1510. Freedberg sees in this painting a Leonardo-based impulse to circumscribe the painting to a world where near-abstract rigorous geometry, characterized by "looming silhouettes of imagined and unpeopled architecture, constructed with a rule and square, take increasing prominence.
"Tokyo Polka " was a series of essays, each illustrated with photographs (accessed 24 February 2006; as of 28 May 2007, the essays and photographs had been removed, leaving only a short description; earlier versions do not seem to be available via the Wayback Machine.) Continues in "Yurari-yurayura-ki ". — presents more of the same. Between a single nude in a shopfront display from 1978 and a very young boy photographed in December 2006 (the latter appearing to share the Sensō-ji backdrop of Persona), are square monochrome views of Tokyo and Kawasaki, compositions that seem casual and rather disorderly, mostly of unpeopled scenes showing signs of intensive and recent use. The book also has Kikai's essays from "Tokyo Polka", essays that dwell on the inhabitants of Tokyo as observed during walks or on the train.
Ulysses turns his attention from himself and his kingdom and speaks of ports, seas, and his mariners. The strains of discontent and weakness in old age remain throughout the poem, but Tennyson finally leaves Ulysses "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" (70), recalling the Dantesque damnable desire for knowledge beyond all bounds. The words of Dante's character as he exhorts his men to the journey find parallel in those of Tennyson's Ulysses, who calls his men to join him on one last voyage. Quoting Dante's Ulisse: 'O brothers', said I, 'who are come despite Ten thousand perils to the West, let none, While still our senses hold the vigil slight Remaining to us ere our course is run, Be willing to forgo experience Of the unpeopled world beyond the sun.
Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness. "On walks in the unpeopled parts of the suburbs," Winkler writes, "I’ve witnessed the same wild creatures, struggles for survival, and natural beauty that we associate with true wilderness."Winkler, Robert. (2003). Going Wild: Adventures with Birds in the Suburban Wilderness. National Geographic . Attempts have been made, as in the Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers Act, to distinguish "wild" from various levels of human influence: in the Act, "wild rivers" are "not impounded", "usually not accessible except by trail", and their watersheds and shorelines are "essentially primitive".Pennsylvania Scenic Rivers Act (P.L. 1277, Act No. 283 as amended by Act 110, May 7, 1982) Another source of criticism is that the criteria for wilderness designation is vague and open to interpretation.
Eoghan Rua was born in 1748 in, Meentogues, Gneeveguilla, Sliabh Luachra, a mountainous part of County Kerry, in southwestern Ireland. He was from a once-prominent sept that like so many others gradually lost its land and its leaders in the successive British conquests of Ireland. By the time of his birth, most of the native Irish in the southwest had been reduced to landless poverty in a "houseless and unpeopled," mountainous region. But the landlord was MacCarthy Mór, one of the few native Irish Chiefs of the Name to have retained some power, and a distant relative of the Ó Súilleabháin sept; and in Sliabh Luachra there was at the time one of the last "classical schools" of Irish poetry, descended from the ancient, rigorous schools that had trained bards and poets in the days of Irish domination.
In 1970 he left Guyana for Canada to attend university; he obtained a BA degree in English (First-Class Hons.) at Lakehead University, an MA degree in English (thesis on American poet Sylvia Plath) at Queen's University, and a Master of Public Administration degree also at Queen's University. He was twice admitted to the PhD Program at York University. In his early years in Canada he worked in a variety of summer jobs to pay his way through university, most importantly as a tree-planter in the Canadian forests around Lake Superior, and lived in bush camps with Native Canadians and others, sometimes six weeks at a time. It was this experience that is part of the process of the drawing of imaginative connections between Guyana and Canada, both with large "unpeopled" hinterlands and surviving native peoples.
From the chapter on lions in William Smellie's 1781 English translation of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle : :The lions of Mount Atlas, the summit of which is sometimes covered with snow, have neither the courage, the strength, nor the ferocity of the lions of Biledulgerid or of Zaara, whose plains are covered with burning sands. It is chiefly in these fervid deserts that we meet with those terrible lions, who are the dread of travellers, and the scourge of the neighbouring provinces. :In the vast deserts of Zaara, in those that seem to separate two very different races of men, the Negroes and the Moors, in the unpeopled regions that lie about the territories of the Hottentos , and, in general, in all those southern parts of Africa and Asia, which man has disdained to inhabit, the lions are still very numerous, and continue in their natural state. This is a description of the English Mastiff from the Cynographia Britannica, published in 1800.