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, made up of textile garments made with fibres
of vegetable origin. Clothing, the majority artifacts in this museum collection, are at the
center of the research, because through them and knowledge about fashion, it is possible to
apprehend how these objects contribute to individual and social memory in Santarém, in
addition to bringing to light visions about art and women’s fashion in the mid- 1950s to 1998.
The methodology encompasses exploratory bibliographic and documentary research on
concepts of fashion, collection and clothing in museums. A dialogue is established with
authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Lipovetsky, Diana Crane, Daniela Calanca, José
Reginaldo Gonçalves and Alexandre Bergamo. The research takes into account the possible
strategies of symbolic valorization of the artist-artisan which evokes repertoires such as
pioneering, authenticity, originality and identity with the Amazonian biodiversity.