Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being monumental.
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- noun architecture A
style characterized bymassive ,monumental buildings
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Examples
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He is concerned that large-scale, sentimental thinking - "monumentalism," he calls it-has paralyzed the rebuilding process.
The New Yorker 2010
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RIEHEN, Switzerland—The poetic minimalism of Constantin Brancusi's small polished heads and the epic monumentalism of Richard Serra's rough gigantic steel structures seem worlds apart.
Fondation Beyeler Show Places Brancusi and Serra Head to Head Goran Mijuk 2011
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The installation also included a full-sized lead bunker containing among other things one of Kiefer's early Nazi salute performance/ photo-documentation works cited by some as examplary of the anti-monumentalism considered most suitably expressive of his post-war generation's critique of Germany's past, now set into a great big clunky monumental "anti-monument."
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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The installation also included a full-sized lead bunker containing among other things one of Kiefer's early Nazi salute performance/ photo-documentation works cited by some as examplary of the anti-monumentalism considered most suitably expressive of his post-war generation's critique of Germany's past, now set into a great big clunky monumental "anti-monument."
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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The installation also included a full-sized lead bunker containing among other things one of Kiefer's early Nazi salute performance/ photo-documentation works cited by some as examplary of the anti-monumentalism considered most suitably expressive of his post-war generation's critique of Germany's past, now set into a great big clunky monumental "anti-monument."
Mira Schor: Gagosian Gallery pulls a Smithsonian Mira Schor 2010
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The most interesting thing of them, I think - and this goes with the observations on the monumentalism of the public architecture - is this underlying current of trying to fashion some sort of History for the country, making sure everything is recorded and possibly glorified and triumphantly displayed.
Whizzing through the colonies Ra 2009
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The most interesting thing of them, I think - and this goes with the observations on the monumentalism of the public architecture - is this underlying current of trying to fashion some sort of History for the country, making sure everything is recorded and possibly glorified and triumphantly displayed.
Archive 2009-09-01 Ra 2009
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The combination of striking parade monumentalism, patriotic art decoration and traditional motifs has become one of the most vivid examples of the Soviet contribution to architecture.
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The combination of striking parade monumentalism, patriotic art decoration and traditional motifs has become one of the most vivid examples of the Soviet contribution to architecture.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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David Clay Large, a historian at Montana State University whose book "Nazi Games" came out last year, defines it as "heroic monumentalism."
The Show Will Go On 2008
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