Abstract

WOOD, Yolanda. Time, Concept, and History: Two Late Twentieth-Century Memorials in Puerto Rico and Cuba. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2022, n.44, pp.43-64.  Epub Apr 27, 2022. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n44.03.

This article examines two relevant monuments by plastic artists from Cuba and Puerto Rico that were erected in the last decade of the former century. “Totem telúrico” [Telluric Totem] is placed in the town of San Juan, and was sculpted by Jaime Suárez in 1992, when the commemoration of the 500 years of the “discovery” of America was being discussed, and Alberto Lescay’s “Monument to the Maroon” was installed in 1997 at El Cobre settlement, Santiago de Cuba, sponsored by Unesco program La Ruta del esclavo [The Slave Route] and La Casa del Caribe [Caribbean House]. They are both memorials to commemorate historic times in the islands, figures of collective importance, such as Indigenous and Palenque worlds, relying their remembrance upon conceptual fundamentals paying tribute to past with symbolic purposes both for the memorial location and their outward appearance and visual resources.

Keywords : concepts; memorials; Caribbean; Alberto Lezcay; Jaime Suárez; Tótem telúrico; Monumento al cimarrón.

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