Describe Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads and explain why it was created.
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Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads are 12 bronze sculptures of creatures from the Chinese zodiac.
2. The heads are based on the remnants of an eighteenth-century fountain from an imperial retreat in Beijing, and Ai Weiwei evokes their function by placing each of them atop a column that resembles a spout of gushing water.
3. The majority of the original eighteenth-century heads vanished when the imperial palace was destroyed by French and British troops in 1860 and the rest were declared national treasures.
4. Ai Weiwei created Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads in response to a 2000 art auction in which three of the lost heads appeared for sale.
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