Word: monumentalizing
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Walking through the hushed corridor of the gallery space in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies Paul Stopforth stops before a piece of his, which is entitled ‘Monument.’ “This is in reference to one of the prisoners, who found a piece of high-tensile wire and, with no tools, created a beautiful blanket pin.” Stopforth pauses, and traces the unbroken line of the object with his hand. “It?...
...biggest chair in the world stands seven stories tall, weighs almost 23 tons and is found just to the left of the second traffic light in the tiny town of Manzano (pop. 7,000) in the northeastern corner of Italy near the Slovenian border. The red pine monument is not some avant-garde artistic statement. It's an oversize acknowledgment by the community of the industry that brought immense prosperity to Manzano and 10 small burgs around it over the past half-century. Known as the "chair triangle" (il triangolo della sedia), this district every year produces as many...
...taking a sculpture, a restaurant, and a series of miniatures on a journey from New Haven, Conn. to Bellows Falls, Vt., and right here to Cambridge.Each work in the project is meant to reexamine some aspect of the cities it visits, and in Cambridge, it commenced with a massive monument honoring the city’s crooked spaces—DeWitt Godfrey’s massive steel rings, which stood next to Café Pamplona for over a month.The next segment takes a different approach, one more concerned with the mental rather than physical landscape. Architecture professor and artist Michael...
...This book combines a history of Delhi, a description of its architectural phases, succinct sketches of virtually every interesting monument in the city, dozens of black-and-white photos and plenty of practical getting-around advice. The loving descriptions will help the reader explore world-famous monuments like the Qutb Minar, a magnificent 800-year-old tower, the Lodi tombs and mosques, and lesser-known marvels such as the Jamali Kamali, the tomb of a 16th century poet and his companion. Spanning from the Middle Ages through the British Raj to the present, the book shows how Delhi accumulated history...
...also successfully fought for a national holiday on King's birthday, which was established in 1985, and was observed this year on Jan. 16. A monument to her husband is also being pursued in Washington, D.C., on the national mall...