The Artistic Education and the cultural policy during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).

Abstract

The 24 of March of 1976, the members of the Army Force in Argentina, organized the sixth attack against the democratic government, at the same time that happen another dictatorships characteristic in the countries of the Latin American South (Brasil, Chile and Uruguay). In comparison, the last Argentine military dictatorship was most bloody of the region, left a balance of 30 thousand “disappear”, between which were hundreds of tie people to the educative and cultural area. In this article, we will observe another aspect of this process the intervention of the military and civilians. We will analyze two related subjects; on the one hand, the content of the cultural policy and by the other, the persecution that suffered the teachers of the artistic schools. We will make center in the norm produced by the functionaries of two state dependencies that were under the orbit of the Ministry of Education of the greatest province of the country, Buenos Aires: the Undersecretary’s office of Culture and the Direction of Artistic Education.