Document Type
Article
Language
spa
Format of Original
30 p.
Publication Date
Spring 2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Source Publication
Hispanic Review
Source ISSN
0018-2176
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1353/hir.2011.0017
Abstract
This article examines the program of bringing itinerant art museums to the rural areas implemented by the Misiones Pedagógicas of Spain’s Second Republic. My analysis seeks to answer the following questions: a) Why did the government support these initiatives while peasants were using violence to contest its agrarian reform? b) How did museums fit into the Republic’s program of public education? And 3) how did they treat the peasants' own culture? Tracing the philosophical foundations of the Museo del Pueblo in Manuel Bartolomé de Cosso's (1857–1935) theory of leisure, I discuss Cosso's indebtedness to late-Victorian uses of art education for the poor and to krausista philosophy. I argue that the Museo del Pueblo’s and the Misiones' emphasis on raising the spirit of citizenship by reorganizing peasants' free time constituted an experiment in liberal governance that responded to the urgent political need to implement a democratic policy for ruling the masses.
Recommended Citation
Afinoguénova, Eugenia, "Leisure and Agrarian Reform: Liberal Governance in the Traveling Museums of Spanish Misiones Pedagógicas (1931–1933)" (2011). Spanish Languages and Literatures Research and Publications. 6.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/span_fac/6
Comments
Published version. Hispanic Review, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Spring 2011), DOI: 10.1353/hir.2011.0017. © 2011 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112.