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The monumentalist, neoclassical style was also favored by architects hired by the Roosevelt administration to design the buildings that came to define modern Washington, including the Federal Triangle, the National Gallery of Art, the National Archives, the Supreme Court Building, the Pentagon, the Department of Justice Building, and the Jefferson Memorial.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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The answer at this point must lie not either in the monumentalist notions of the modernist avant-garde, nor in the anything goes and terminal non-arrival of the post-modernist avant garde, but in something beyond post-modernism.
Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Prada lent the trend new impetus in 2001 by hanging a photographic mural of the German monumentalist Andreas Gursky in its SoHo boutique.
Taipei Times 2009
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