(A similar ploy, it's worth noting, is widespread in the animal kingdom, from cobras to gorillas, where it is known as "broadside display").
In these animals, the broadside display also presents the largest possible body profile to the opponent, and the display may be thus enhanced with erected fur, feathers, or fins.
During competitive or aggressive encounters, fish may engage in behaviors such as broadside displays or raising their dorsal fins, and mammals may exhibit piloerection in which the hair along the spine is raised.
For example, the broadside threat display often seen in the early stages of a conflict between two competitors in animals such as ungulates, cats, lizards, and fish has been viewed as the blending of aggressive approach and flight.
Meantime the public will continue to have access to the broadsides on display in government buildings, universities and other archives, including the New-York Historical Society.
Broadsides on display testify to the bell's symbolic importance to the abolitionist movement in the 19th century, and film clips demonstrate how it became a national icon.
The broadside is displayed two ways: as a bound stack of newspapers and as a part of a paper spectrum in which the photo of Bullock on one end fades to black before materializing as Rhea on the other end.
A selection of these artist's books and the broadsides is currently on display at London's Mosaic Rooms, and on 22 January there will be a panel event at which two contributing artists, Catherine Cartwright and Mona Kriegler, along with guest speaker Dr Safaa Sangour Al-Salih, will discuss the project's significance, and the process of responding to and creating artwork for such a venture.
Broadside, circa 1860s-1870s, adisplaying a display of stereoscopic views of various European locales at Pescud's Drug Store, probably in Raleigh, N.C.
The descent of the Wunderkammer into less wholesome forums of public display — for-profit museums and freak shows — is traced with numerous broadsides and pamphlets, including a four-page brochure from around 1880 put out by the impresario John Harvey Wood, who was active in Philadelphia and Chicago.
He is as feisty as ever in his sneering at Democrats, firing broadsides at Al Gore, his former boss's opponent in the 2000 presidential campaign, for "the most pathetic display of hypocrisy" over the question of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
