The Experience of Civic Conscience
The Experience of Civic Conscience
Designs for the Monumento a Martí
This chapter discusses the design of the Monumento a Martí. The monument was the belated result of Presidential Decree No. 1631 of June 2, 1937, which created the Comisión Central Pro-Monumento a Martí, an appointed body of government, military, and business leaders given responsibility for devising and executing a suitable national commemoration of José Martí. The new Monumento a Martí would be the central focus of the civic square, taking advantage of the rise of the hill amplifying the monument’s effect. The ambition to erect a monument in Havana to the martyred leader of the Cuban independence movement arose as one aspect of the larger deification of José Martí.
Keywords: Monumento a Martí, Comisión Central Pro-Monumento a Martí, national commemoration, José Martí, Havana, Cuban independence
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