Una historia en un mundo primordial una reflexión sobre arte, ciudadanía y universidad

Abstract

The following account proposes ways of connecting art, citizenship and the university from the horizons of the symbolic. A first moment in the story is aimed at establishing the status of allegory and allegorical art; a second moment reflects on the state from the classical distinction of the sacred and the profane, emphasizing the relevance of allegorical art to represent the sacred force of the state; a third reveals the relationship between the state and allegorical art while dealing with school as an instance of socialization, and, more specifically, of the university as a social institution; finally, the story proposes a discussion on the relationship between culture and art and the risks that the colonization of the world of life by the commodity poses to both. Although this reflection comes from different theoretical places, we privilege a few: the history of art and culture in Warburg and Panofsky, the structures of the imaginary in Durand and the economy of symbolic goods in Bourdieu.