ABSTRACT
The present study formulates an analytical immersion in the discourses about the practices of art exhibitions and their connection to the educational discourse, in order to question the assertions that support such a discursive confluence. The text operates in favor of the hypothesis that the notion of democratization of access to cultural-artistic goods - mostly supported by data that attest, today, high rates of visitation to museums and similar spaces - refers, above all, to the consolidation of a sophisticated process of art pedagogization, which started the moment we witnessed a historical forging of the art-museum-education encounter at the end of the 18th century. From this perspective, the Foucauldian notion of governmentality was used to situate the inescapable bond of this encounter with the production of certain modes of existence conditioned to the form of perennial spectators-pupils.
Keywords:
Art; Museum; Education; Pedagogization; Governmentality