Word: monumentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall. Willy Brandt was mayor of West Berlin when the East Germans sealed the border virtually overnight. Last week, in its own schizophrenic way, the city that incarnates all of the tragedy of Europe's brutal division between East and West marked the latest anniversary of the monument to repression...
...other states, inspired by his example, had 3,232,701. Viewers of Britain's royal wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral last week were reminded that the church's architect, Sir Christoper Wren, is buried there beneath a marker that reads, "If you seek his monument, look about you." Robert Moses could be buried anywhere in New York State, perhaps anywhere in America, beneath a tombstone that says just that. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Petor Stoler/New York
...taxing issue of what makes a Rodin "original." He did not work like a modern artist. He seldom carved his own marbles, never cast his bronzes, and turned his models over to assistants so that they could be done in a gamut of sizes. Paperweight to Large Economy Monument. Yet his artistic control remained absolute...
...indicate what Rodin absorbed by way of themes, images and treatments from lesser men like Jean-Paul Aubé, whose figure of Dante conversing with a damned soul may have helped start the train of thought that led to The Gates of Hell, or Alexandre Falguière, whose monument to Lamartine is distantly echoed in Rodin's bronze crag of literature, the Balzac. Yet Rodin's superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times...
...layman with a longstanding interest in ecclesiastical architecture, I found James Wilde's "In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral" [May 25] encouraging. It is refreshing to know that men are willing, even eager, to contribute to a monument whose completion is tentatively 30 years away...