Abstract

BASUALDO, Patricia. State policies for Argentine art and Institutions in the 1930s. Folia [online]. 2021, n.42, pp.59-78. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0425732.

During the 1930s, the Federal Government, through the Dirección Nacional de Bellas Artes (DNBA), developed several projects that aimed to propagate and encourage the production of Argentine art within the country and to decentralize art activities anchored in Buenos Aires. For this reason, the Federación de Comisiones Oficiales de Bellas Artes (1934-1936) was created and traveling exhibitions were organized with award-winning works at the Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes (SNBA) (1934-1937). These efforts added to the works loan policy that the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) had deployed since the first decade of the century for the foundation of museums, or to supplement the collections of recently created museums in different provincial cities. This paper intends to describe the implementation of the above-mentioned programs, reveal the conflicts that arose from them, and compare the configuration of first deliveries to cities across Buenos Aires to determine the presence of Argentine art in their layout; it also intends to establish, on the one hand, if the promotion of national artistic works was critical in each of them and, on the other hand, the place taken up by provincial exhibition halls and their artists in those programs of national impact.

Keywords : 1930s; Argentine art; Artistic institutions.