Art, culture and the spirit of a time

• Autor(a) principal: Porto, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec
• Texto Completo: http://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/62
• topic: Educação; Ciências Sociais; Cultura; Cultura. Políticas culturais.; Culture. Cultural policies.

We live in a time marked by changes to the political, economic, cultural and social contexts in which, in Brazil, we see the resumption of public investments in culture. These changes, particularly represented by the revolution in the production and dissemination of information, have also carried out transformations to the collective imaginary and signaled a new challenge for the implementation of public policies for incentive to production and access to culture. This article approaches the adjustment of public policies to this new reality. We highlight that good public policies within the scope of culture need to intersect two fields of public life: the esthetical and ethical development, and we highlight the need for the proposal of policies that encourage symbolic experiences that are capable of reinventing the imaginary and that, instead of reaffirming symbolic inequalities, offer to the individuals the opportunity to express and change themselves.