La construcción del mercado de arte en Costa Rica : políticas culturales, acciones estatales y colecciones públicas (1950-2005). E. Zavaleta Ochoa (2019). San José, Costa Rica : EUCR
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2019-05-27
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Cuevas Molina, Rafael
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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Eugenia Zavaleta nos ofrece, en La construcción del mercado de arte en Costa Rica: Políticas culturales, acciones estatales y colecciones públicas (1950-2005), un estudio pormenorizado
no solo de lo que constituye el objeto central de su estudio sino, más en general, del papel que jugó el estado de bienestar en la conformación de lo que considero que con propiedad podríamos llamar la identidad cultural contemporánea en el país. Efectivamente, como ha sido documentado cada vez con mayor profusión, esa identidad, que hoy se encuentra nuevamente en un período de reconfiguración acelerado, ha tenido en Costa Rica al Estado como su artífice mayor desde el momento mismo de la configuración de la república, pero especialmente a partir del último tercio del siglo XIX, cuando se toma conciencia del valor utilitario que tiene para la política aglutinar a la ciudadanía en torno a un ideal común, que resalta valores y rasgos acordes con un determinado proyecto de desarrollo, en este caso el de los liberales.
Eugenia Zavaleta offers us, in La construcción del mercado de arte en Costa Rica: Políticas culturales, acciones estatales y colecciones públicas (1950-2005), a detailed study not only of what constitutes the central object of her study but, more generally, of the role played by the welfare state in shaping what I believe we could properly call contemporary cultural identity in the country. not only of what constitutes the central object of her study but, more generally, of the role played by the welfare state in the shaping of what I believe we could properly call the contemporary cultural identity in the country. Indeed, as has been documented with increasing profusion, that identity, which today is once again in a period of accelerated reconfiguration, has had in Costa Rica the State as its major architect from the very moment of the configuration of the republic, but especially from the last third of the nineteenth century, when it became aware of the utilitarian value for politics of uniting the citizenry around a common ideal, which highlights values and features consistent with a particular development project, in this case that of the liberals.
Eugenia Zavaleta offers us, in La construcción del mercado de arte en Costa Rica: Políticas culturales, acciones estatales y colecciones públicas (1950-2005), a detailed study not only of what constitutes the central object of her study but, more generally, of the role played by the welfare state in shaping what I believe we could properly call contemporary cultural identity in the country. not only of what constitutes the central object of her study but, more generally, of the role played by the welfare state in the shaping of what I believe we could properly call the contemporary cultural identity in the country. Indeed, as has been documented with increasing profusion, that identity, which today is once again in a period of accelerated reconfiguration, has had in Costa Rica the State as its major architect from the very moment of the configuration of the republic, but especially from the last third of the nineteenth century, when it became aware of the utilitarian value for politics of uniting the citizenry around a common ideal, which highlights values and features consistent with a particular development project, in this case that of the liberals.
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Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, año 2019, vol. 45, páginas 699-703
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ARTE, HISTORIA DEL ARTE, LEGISLACIÓN, GALERÍAS DE ARTE, COMERCIO, ART, ART HISTORY, LEGISLATION, ART GALLERIES, COMMERCE