Word: monumentalized
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...past half-century. He arrived in Tokyo in 1947 as a typist with the U.S. government and never really left, writing dozens of books on Japanese movies, temples, history and fashion, while enjoying himself as an actor, musician, filmmaker and painter. The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 is a monument to the pleasures of displacement. Richie watchers can observe, more intimately than ever, a man who is generally happiest observing. Newcomers to the "chronic non-joiner" may be tempted to turn to two essential, and more formal, companion books also published in recent years: The Donald Richie Reader and a reissue...
MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA ... Hungry for Art Lenin and Stalin have long been toppled, but how to fill their plinths? To get out of that cultural pickle, Muscovites have opted for a real pickle - or at least a big bronze one meant as "a monument to a truly Russian snack." Having largely missed out on Pop Art, Russians seem hungry to catch up. Other street art sprouting up: a potato, a tomato and, er, a chunk of processed cheese...
BILL: To me, Chris, a drug album isn’t the best album to listen to while using drugs, but rather the singular monument to the cocktail of pills, smokables, intravenous supplements and various other curiously strong concoctions that always seem to lubricate the gears of musical creativity—the album that best delineates the impact of these substances on artistic ambitions. Of course there are just so many worthy candidates—for instance, anything breathed on by Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before he tripped off the face of the planet...
...Wilson brother?—but nothing can touch the ambience of anxiety, mania, and rapidly imploding self-confidence that makes the original recordings so hauntingly incredible. For the music and for the story behind it, the unfinished Smile recordings of 1966 and 1967 are my choice as singular monument to both the promise and disappointment of drug culture and the Greatest Drug Album of All Time...
...Contempora 5 Art Prize in Melbourne, followed by a white-hot career based in Los Angeles and now London. That rapidity contrasts with the stillness of his work. With his best-known piece, the head of Darth Vader made from layers of charcoal MDF board (Model for a Sunken Monument, 1999), there's a sense that time is warping before your very eyes...