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VALERO PIE, Aurelia. Memory’s Trot: The Equestrian Statue of Charles IV, El Caballito, and the Experience of Time. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.124, pp.165-196.  Epub 28-Ene-2025. ISSN 0185-1276.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iie.18703062e.2024.124.2854.

In order to identify current experiences of time, this article dwells on the debate concerning the equestrian statue of Charles IV, better known as El Caballito, in the aftermath of its 2013 disastrous restauration. The classification of heritage values, as enounced by Alois Riegl, serves as a tool to understand a conflict that involved different conceptions of tradition and identity. I claim that the different ways in which the statue was preserved and restored during a few key moments in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries reveal central features of our relation to time and the transformations that lead to today’s regime of historicity.

Palabras llave : Equestrian statue of Charles IV; memory; temporality; presentism.

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