Abstract
This article analyzes the creation of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture in 1985 by means of the identification of its main actor’s interests and strategies and of the positioning of the political parties on the debate about the need for a specific ministry for Culture separated from the Ministry of Education. By locating this process in the political context of the mid-1980s through the analysis of journalistic fonts and interviews, it also considers the discussions and debates that led to the creation of an autonomous ministry of Culture. It finishes by concluding that even though the process of creation of the Ministry of Culture might have been influenced by petty politics and conducted in a haste and rather inefficiently, it was an expression of the remobilization of Brazilian civil society in the transition to democracy in the early 1980s.
Culture; Ministry of Culture; Intellectuals; Artists; Cultural Policies