Contra la cultura (estatalizada)

Abstract

This article analyze and reexpose and the essay that french academicist Marc Fumaroli dedicated, at the beginning of the nineties, about the institutionalization policy of cultural contents carried out in the twentieth century. Despite the time that has elapsed, we believe that the book, entitled The State cultural (essay on a modern religion), it retains its freshness intact. The work focuses on the implementation of the so-called cultural policies, formally inaugurated with the creation of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in 1959 directed by André Malraux. Fumaroli however is not restricted to explore the nature and evolution of this Ministry, but traces its historical precedents and identifies the texts and political moments in concocted the ideology that justificate it. This breadth allows that its diagnosis exceeds the french case and can be applied to any western country, or at least European. It is a test that, despite addressing artistic matters, is raised from a historical and theoretical political approach, which did not hide the liberal budgets that part. It is not surprising that one of the first conclusions reached acknowledgment the dirigist nature of cultural policies. However, far from being criticized, the �impurity symbiosis� that reveals the point of view of Fumaroli not only has the merit of being explicit from the beginning, but that it might perhaps manifests by itself as the most suitable to observe the peculiar coupling between the administrative and artistic levels taking place in the heart of the European States since the beginning of the twentieth century.