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From the Icefields Parkway - Canada's most scenic driving route - their monumental work is displayed in ever-larger peaks, rising like ruined castles on either side of the road.
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Although the gap between spoken and printed vocabulary has narrowed since James Murray began his monumental work in an Oxford garden shed nearly 120 years ago, it has by no means closed.
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Another monumental work, and among my favorites, is Swiss artist Alex Hanimann's "Vanessa" (2012), a 5-meter-high chrome statue of a tomboyish teenage girl that gleams in the sun and reflects the surrounding buildings.
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Across the river, the following decade, Gustave Eiffel began work on his monumental iron tower as an emblem of industry and science.
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Donatello also produced the show's most dramatic work, the monumental 2.7-meter-tall bronze horse's head known as the Carafa Protome, the sole surviving element of an unfinished equestrian statue, paired here with the smaller 4th-century B.
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"The work he's doing is monumental, " says Edward Kastenmeier, Strassler's editor at his current publisher, Pantheon.
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The result was his monumental "War Requiem" a work quickly declared a masterpiece by critics and colleagues alike.
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Often referred to as "the stripe guy" by American art critics who homed in on his artworks using striped awning canvas or contrasting maxi stripes, in more recent years, Mr. Buren's work has become increasingly architectural and, indeed, monumental.
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You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.
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