The exterior may indicate the difficulty architects faced of finding an authentic institutional expression in the late 20th century: it is a deliberately anti-monumental monument.
Although she creates on a massive scale, her sculptures are often described as anti-monumental, the monument and its downfall contained within a form made of ordinary materials: cardboard, rags, rubber, tape, tarpaulin, paper, polystyrene.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
Hoyer makes the bland, blocky building the looming centerpiece of the canvas, a monumental anti-monument.
By contrast, Dennis' nervous system is channeled through materials and objects by proxy of industrial manufacturing and the laborers who man the assembly lines, transport, and site installations of his increasingly monumental anti-monuments.
Robert Musil wrote that nothing is as invisible as a monument; this un-monumental memorial was distinctly visible, and yet so discreet as to be almost not there.
In this article we present a preliminary study discussing new perspectives for future research and interpretation of the Bronze and Iron Age monuments and monumental landscapes in terms of their social dynamic in these early complex societies.
In a wild program, Denk not only takes on one of the monuments (and monumental challenges) of modern keyboard literature, György Ligeti's Piano Concerto, but he will also be joined by pianist and LACO music director Jeffrey Kahane in concertos for two pianos by Bach and Mozart.
The result, at nine and a half hours, is nothing short of monumental - literally, a monument to the lost.
On top of the monumental dam is a monument to the dam.
Ronald Reagan, in his first Inaugural Address, looked at the obelisk across the Mall and spoke about "the monument to a monumental man".
