Word: monumentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morgan's volume forms a monument to Maugham--its size testifies to the complexity of the subject and the exceptionally active life he led. Yet Morgan does not attempt to deify the writer, revealing not the successful, exciting, respected literary profile Maugham wished to project, but the often caustic, seldom genuinely charming man, obsessed with his literary shortcomings--he considered himself a failure for not winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many...
...Swanson Monument, Colo...
...Pavia called the Re-gisole (long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses and calm, advancing gait in numerous drawings, five exquisite examples of which are in the Met show. Only when the 17th century-under the influence of Rubens and Bernini-demanded more intricate...
...symbol of the transactions between nature and culture. The show also demonstrates how the influence of the animals in Venice has survived for more than seven centuries, in copies, studies, models and full-scale figures ranging from medieval miniatures to Antonio Canova's design for a monument to George Washington...
Outside, an evening of cold beauty also seemed to diminish the inside warning. A Monument moon rode high, and the city from the Washington Monument to the Capitol dome was proudly luminescent. With luck it will stay that way. But we seem to be pushing...