"Conceptos sobre las artes" work analysis by Juan León Mera (1894)

Abstract

The present paper approaches “Conceptos sobre las artes” work from the Ecua-dorian writer and politician Juan León Mera, who wrote it in 1894. The Mera’s essay sets personal perspectives from the author in regard to arts world, its characteristics and spiritual role in nineteenth-century society. This article analyzes the “arts” concept definition, provide by the author. Through a text examination, it is glimpsed the scope and limits of this word within modern societies context late XIX century that Mera con-sidered as civilized cultures.