The canvases of Melvin Samuels Jr., known by his tag, NOC 167, combine monumental letters, gaseous colored spaces, cartoon images and illusory flares of light to create a baroque, visionary extravagance.
In the current exhibition, Cave Girl poses in a white fur-trimmed leather one-piece suit in front of the monumental letters of her name, which look as though they were carved from stone.
Among the simplest are those that have the words "Eat" and "Die" in monumental block letters within bold circles; they're like signs for a greasy-spoon diner in an existentialist film noir.
In works based on Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," the monumental block letters I and M painted over pages from the novel read as a powerful declaration of identity: "I am".
There's mourning again in Henry Taylor's muted "Homage to a Brother," where behind the half-silhouetted torso of a departed boy, his name — Sean — stands in monumental capital letters.
But for him, the monumental golden Hebrew letters on a wall at the exhibition's entrance, which translate as "Art and Spirit," contain his multitudes.
English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of Victorian biography, Strachey proposed to write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant".
A tremendous volume of prose was produced periodicals, religious books and tracts, biographies, sermons, letters, and monumental works such as Y Gwyddoniadur ("The Encyclopaedia") and Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry ("History of the Britons and the Welsh").
Two monumental figures in Latin American letters died during the year.
He lavished an Italianate flourish on his sonnets and plays, the studied prose of his letters, and a monumental unfinished history of the war against Spain.
