to monumentalize

Examples

• All

• Foxe is interested in a textual remembering of these acts, in monumentalizing them in written form so that they become stable signifiers of imitable action.

  Academic text (2002)

• Now, when she revisits Burlington, she realizes that "I am historical" (p. 11), that the landscape quietly monumentalizes her existence, standing as a collection of places where she has lived, worked, played, gone to school, and visited family.

  Academic text (1999)

• Modern architecture monumentalized a dated image of technologies rather than the technologies themselves.

  Academic text (2000)

• Ruscha's strategy, like that of many of his Pop colleagues, is to monumentalize such commodities, thus calling attention to their ubiquity in society.

  Academic text (2005)

• They tried to avoid describing them as artworks, even while taking the risk of monumentalizing them by exhibiting them.

  Academic text (2000)

• The five waters of the Punjab are no longer irrigating trails of civilized exchange, but have been monumentalized into a fountain.

  Academic text (1992)

• Monumentalizing images drawn from the North African theater presented the means to consolidate a collective sensibility that critics demanded of artists and the public alike.

  Academic text (2004)

• The mutable bodies of the martyrs are transferred into immutable texts that will survive, precisely because the martyrologist has monumentalized them in such a way.

  Academic text (2002)

• As such, it threatened to monumentalize the accelerated pace of the modern, while at the same time serving notice to the impossibility of the monument within modernity, to its alleged capacity to stabilize and communicate historical events and values into perpetuity.

  Academic text (1998)

• The new statue in the park was created to monumentalize the contributions of local heroes.

Synonyms

C

to commemorate

vsto monumentalize

66 5.8

To remember someone or something with a ceremony

is more specific, focusing on creating a lasting physical monument

I

to immortalize

vsto monumentalize

19 7.0

Make a person or thing remembered forever by honoring them

is about recording memory specifically through a physical monument

M

to memorialize

vsto monumentalize

• Formal

15 7.2

To honor and remember someone in a lasting, formal way

focuses specifically on making a physical monument or similar lasting structure

E

to eternize

vsto monumentalize

9.9

To make something last forever in people's memory or art

focuses instead on creating a lasting structure to record or honor

Antonyms

F

to forget

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

E

to erase

144 1.6

Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible

How Commemorative

to immortalize

19 7.0

to monumentalize

9.5

to enshrine

• Formal

22 7.2

to commemorate

66 5.8

to remember

∞ 1.0

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology