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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of monumentalize.

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  • 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.

    Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 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.

    Article Abstracts 2005

  • 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.

    GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS 2007

  • 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 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.

    Antique News News! 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.

    artforum.com 2009

  • 3 To aspire to poetic fame, then, is to "intrude" into a monumentalized tradition that Clare tropes as landed "inheritance."

    Like 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 "

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • At any rate, "both Antonioni and Bergman were monumentalized long ago.

    GreenCine Daily 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.

    unknown title 2009

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