monumentalizing

In place of the flamboyant, monumentalizing war films with their abstract ideals, the camera began to look at daily life as if through the eyes of the veteran. . .

Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

There's no issue or problem or contradiction in eschewing the "extra-literary responsibility" of winning the Nobel as a "black" writer while embracing the "extra-literary responsibility" of monumentalizing pain and suffering on a scale beyond reckoning.

“Sixty Million and more” 2009

The cultic life of the dead Shelley might seem to be the most naïve and egregious of these monumentalizing strategies.

Shelley's Pod People 2005

They also demand that orthodox accounts of post-World War II New York abstraction as a monumentalizing, ego-driven enterprise be rethought.

NYT > Home Page 2010

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper.

Chicago Reader 2010

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper.

Chicago Reader 2010

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper.

Chicago Reader 2009

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper.

Chicago Reader 2009

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper.

Chicago Reader 2009

Eartha Kitt songs add a final touch, both personalizing the sitter and monumentalizing her "Everywoman" aspect.

unknown title 2009