1. New Mexico's Cuarto Centenario: History in Visual Dialogue.
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FIELDS, ALISON
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COLLECTIVE memory , *STATUES , *MEMORIALS , *HISTORY in art , *CONQUERORS ,NEW Mexico state history to 1848 - Abstract
Out of the aftermath of the New Mexico Cuarto Centeuario (the four hundredth anniversary of the Spanish explorer Don Juan de Oñate's 1598 settlement in present-day New Mexico) Came a pledge to create a memorial for the conquistador. The memorial was envisioned as a tri-cultural endeavor, with Reynaldo "Sormy" Rivera, Betty Sabo, and Nora Naranjo-Morse Collaborating. Becasise of his complex legacy, the three artists could not agree on how to represent Oñate. Rivera and Sabo ultimately crafted a series of bronze statues of Oñate and his entourage titled "La Jornada," while Naranjo-Morse created an earthwork titled "Numbe Whageh." These two approaches give physical form to a contested history, and present very different modes of remembering New Mexico's colonial past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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- 2011
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