"Then, Victoria, plant your cross now, the cross of yours"

Ocampo's beginnings as an artistic and cultural manager in Argentina during the government of Marcelo T de Alvear

Abstract

This article aims to address Victoria Ocampo as an artistic and cultural manager before Sur. For this, we will turn to the approach of some passages of his Testimonios and the fourth volume of his Autobiografía entitled "Viraje", to understand his work before his consecration from the thirty. As a hypothesis, we express that Ocampo began her journey as an artistic and cultural manager in the twenties within the framework of the government of Marcelo T. de Alvear and that said position rarely addressed by critics allows reading it in the initial journey from the links between culture, art and politics, and from the legitimation that it sought to achieve from that intertwining. We will seek by means of the use of the comparative to interpret it in two scenarios that allow us to explain its agency, the hospitality and the institutional.