Monumentalized

For most Americans with an interest in art, the monumentalized flowers and delicately breathtaking landscapes of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) are modernist enough to be exciting and traditional enough to be credible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The aesthetic fulfills itself in turning against itself; it succeeds through failure; 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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

By adopting a close-up, frontal viewpoint that monumentalized the object against a white ground, Warhol clearly took on the tradition of still-life painting, but he combines the implacable objectivity of the Soup Cans with an impenetrable graphic style, tracing his images directly from photographs or used stencils in order to facilitate the precise mechanical mode to which he aspired. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Installation views of past exhibitions, monumentalized and themselves turned into works of art on the walls of the museum, create a self-referential tautology-successful from the curatorial standpoint, spectacular in terms of the installation-and lead viewers deep into the artist's weltanschauung. ❋ Unknown (2009)

3 To aspire to poetic fame, then, is to "intrude" into a monumentalized tradition that Clare tropes as landed "inheritance." ❋ Unknown (1999)

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 " ❋ Unknown (2009)

At any rate, "both Antonioni and Bergman were monumentalized long ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With his sculptures of colossal buttons, gigantic clothes pins and over-sized typewriter erasers, Oldenburg magnified and monumentalized the objects of his time and place, "said Coggin, designer.

1. Wow, the music in Monument all sounds the same. Let's go camping on [Mt]. [Herman]. 2. Typical Monument kid: "omg I hate Monument ther iz nuthing to do [lulz]!!1" ❋ MikeB666 (2007)

Guy 1: [What's wrong] with Larry? He's been acting [like such] [a jerk]! Guy 2: I know, man. He's gone monumental. ❋ AlabamaBaby (2016)

AU student: yo, we're going [monumenting] after going to [the Hawk] and Dove. Georgetown student: Ok, I'll make a stop at the liquor store. One or two handles of [Svedka]? GW student: Obviously two. Dude we're pregaming the Hawk AND monumenting. ❋ Austudent915 (2010)

This shit is monumental! ([emphasis] on 3rd and [4th] [syllables]) ❋ Jackie-F (2005)

Monument is [full of] [rich people]. ❋ A Kid From Monument (2016)

[The team] [completed] the monumentous task in [record] time. ❋ Superbug (2010)

Ugh, there is nothing to do in [monument]. “Hey let’s [go to Walmart] and [smoke a bowl]”. ❋ Ariana Grandesco (2018)

[Que pasa]? I [grew] up on Monument. ❋ 123banana (2011)

[President Obama's] [inauguration] is a monumentous day in [American history]. ❋ Katie Buck (2009)

Monument, of [Nancy] there was down, just at the edge of the bed, [stunned], when he saw that [guest] friends of her, were fast and seriously, inside, in love. ❋ Man!? (2017)