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monumentalize

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  1. record or memorialize lastingly with a monument

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  • Both images collapse universality and individuality into monumentalized maternity.
  • In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters.
  • The explanation follows - the women, thus monumentalized, are eternally atoning for the ignobility of Caryae, a Greek state which allied with the Persians, and shared their defeat.
  • To monumentalize this observation into a method of reading would be to regress from the rigor exhibited by Shelley which is exemplary because it refuses to be generalized into a system. Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
  • These three essays all, in their different ways, show that the aesthetic fulfills itself in turning against itself; that it succeeds through failure; that it ruins even as it reproduces the monumental artwork, the monumentalized artist, the psychological subject, and the space of pedagogical and political formation within which modern subjects come to pass. Article Abstracts
  • The octave does not seem to me very clearly put, and the sestet does not emphasize in a sufficiently striking way the idea which the prose sketch conveyed to me, -- that of Keats's special privilege in early death: viz., the lovely monumentalized image he bequeathed to us of the young poet. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • An occupation of Wall Street to monumentalize the already very imposing (at 6'8) Paul Volcker, and to adopt the tax suggestions of one of Wall Street's most ruthless and accomplished sharks, good old Uncle Warren in his viyella shirt and corduroy trousers, (who paid less than $7 million on income of $63 million last year), is a piquant confession of the innocence of the occupiers once they get south of Canal Street. Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement
  • What makes it worse is that in this later encounter, the short-story writer seems to have monumentalized the show.
  • In addition to writing scholarly pieces on artists like John Baldessari and Gerhard Richter, Coosje van Bruggen worked with her husband Claes Oldenburg on a number of sculptures that basically monumentalized Pop art, a body of work she dubbed Museum Blogs
  • Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments. GreenCine Daily
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