From the late 1880s on, he produced a series of innovative, monumental mass-market lithographic posters advertising more prosaic themes — serial novels, magazines, books, products and even the Ault & Wiborg Company, makers of fine inks, based in Cincinnati.
Those images of monumental debris — angular masses that appear to emerge from sediment like alien geology — remain transfixing.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
These twins, not entirely identical, are massed like two monumental slices of toast, popping up over either side of Thames Street on lower Broadway.
And both projects, with their ramps and floating masses, are similarly monumental and fanciful, like cool utopian abstraction enlivened by a lilting Carnival samba.
Wandering through clouds of grade-A medical greenery, into crowds of dehydrated masses, and past monumental installations that give Burning Man a run for its money, I found myself in awe of the scope of the festival.
Their monumental quality, formed by the great mass of stone from which the oval eyes, sensual mouth, and broad face are fashioned, provides a powerful sculptural concept.
They also barred him from completing a monumental recording of the complete Haydn Masses, to be released on the Naxos label this month.
The monumental civic victory provided the procrastinating masses a fleeting moment of entertainment at the digital water cooler this morning (and a hearty chuckle from this reporter).
