Futures of Constitutional Modernism
Futures of Constitutional Modernism
This concluding chapter focuses on the modernism of the design of urban spaces. It discusses how the design and realization of a historical object effected a connection between the nation’s past and its present. It argues that the Monumento a Martí could manifest the ideality of the Cuban nation in the singular contemporaneity of its citizen subjects. The object itself was not only symbolic of an overwhelming historical circumstances but it encouraged its audience to identify itself as a collective of historical subjects endowed with civic consciousness. The historicity of the Monumento a Martí was a historical consciousness condensed into an experience not merely of temporality, but of presentness.
Keywords: modernism, design, urban spaces, historical objects, Monumento a Martí, Cuba, civic consciousness
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