New Mexico's Cuarto Centenario
History in Visual Dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11666254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Fields (0000-0002-0419-5568, University of New Mexico, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-72 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2011.33.1.44 |
| OpenAlex | W2011451797 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Out of the aftermath of the New Mexico Cuarto Centenario (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 “Sonny” Rivera, Betty Sabo, and Nora Naranjo-Morse collaborating. Because 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
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Humanities · Pledge · Political science · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and Natural History · Computer Science · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |