Document Type
Essay
Abstract
Luis Jiménez’s Southwest Pietà (1984) intended to combat cultural amnesia that obscured Native Americans’ and Mexicans’ contributions to the state. Jiménez’s Pietà sought to counter the iconography that shaped New Mexico’s colonialist heritage. But Old Town Albuquerque shrouds Native American and Mexican contributions to the region. Albuquerque’s public art has often been deployed as a wedge to write and rewrite narratives about land inhabitants, but the city’s public art tells a powerful story about race and place in New Mexico. This essay explores the socio-historical battle of land memorialization in Old Town Albuquerque and provides a geo-racial perspective about the public art as place-making for New Mexico residents.
Recommended Citation
Castillo, Eric. "Myth and Monument in Old Town Albuquerque: Southwest Pietà and The War of Presiding Histories." Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal 1, 1 (2024). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/rxsj/vol1/iss1/11
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