VISIONS OF ART AND WOMEN'S FASHION IN THE AMAZON:
THE COLLECTION OF THE DICA FRAZÃO MUSEUM
COLLECTION, ART, FASHION, MUSEUM, CLOTHING
This research aims to analyze the collection of the Dica Frazão museum, which for two decades has exhibited a long-term exhibition consisting of textiles made with fibers of plant origin. The clothing, the majority artifacts in this museum collection, are at the center of the research, because, through them and through knowledge about fashion, it is possible to apprehend how these objects contribute to individual and social memory in Santarém, besides bringing to light visions about art and female fashion in the mid 1950s to 1998. The methodology includes bibliographic and documental exploratory research on concepts of fashion, collection and clothing in a museum. A dialogue is established with authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Fausto Viana, Rita Andrade, Gilles Lipovetsky, Roland Barthes, Herbert J. Gans, Regina Abreu and Alexandre Bergamo, among others. The research takes into account the possible strategies of distinction between art and handicraft, high culture and popular culture, and seeks to indicate the particularities of the handwork made by Dica Frazão.