the myth of art and the myth of the people, written more than twenty years ago, is the result of a moment of arrest. In the midst of the maelstrom of the political demands of the democratic transitions in the region - which announced the near end of the Stroesnerista dictatorship, but did not avoid its repressive death rattles - Escobar intervenes with this book in a powerful way in two central discussions of those years : the crisis of modernity and the relations between the popular and the scholarly in latin america. Ticio Escobar accepts the political nature of his artistic thought: the dispute over control of symbolic production.