Word: monumentalizing
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...each against each, zealously trying to drag everything toward a private nest" -- such a background cannot help giving a special character to a sculptor's use of the "heroic" figure, to her ideas on the body's status as a container of esthetic feeling, to her sense of the monumental. How can you imagine a monument in a culture that has been ideologically corrupt for half a century...
...almost always there was a hard core of vision and purpose. Russell made sure that the U.S. kept its military edge at the height of the cold war. Without trying, Russell became the monument that the Russell Senate Office Building was named for. He basked in the Senate interplay, yet was so devoted to a larger cause it was said he never solicited a vote except on the merits of a bill. When he rose, the galleries quieted. He never looked up but spoke to the floor where his colleagues were collected. When asked once about his huge influence...
...Jazz quarter unloads some drums from a van and starts setting up behind the Newtowne monument, Merwin says, "You know, Auden said, 'Poetry makes nothing happen.' That's something everybody quotes and it may or may not be true...
...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than a dozen years in planning and construction, has been built at the edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean...
...conflated. The art of cross dressing has developed with a concomitant development of gay culture. Oscar Wilde's legacy embodies the meeting of these two identities. As a brilliant writer, he exalted the camp aesthetic for art, and as a gay man, he modelled himself into a living monument to camp. To Wilde's credit, he never allowed the harsh conditions of his life to penetrate his undying belief in the campy aesthetics of dandyism...