Fotografias para memória: a Escola de Belas Artes de Pelotas através do seu acervo documental (1949-1973)

Abstract

The Pelotas School of Fine Arts (EBA) ran between the years 1949 to 1973, having been a pioneer in the formal teaching of fine arts in the city of Pelotas/RS. Throughout that period, the school generated a set of documents consisting of text documents and photos that compose the collection of Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum of Art (MALG), an institution linked to the Arts Center (CA) of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) that currently holds the custody and protection of those documents. This research has as main goal to systematize that collection, since it was not cataloged yet. The systematization of this set of documents, here called EBA Collection, takes in account conservation steps, processing information and accessibility. For the technical development of this research, studies of Belloto, Burgi, Cândido, Paes and Pavão are used. The photographic documents record classes, indoor venues and several happenings, such as social gatherings, exhibitions, graduation events and portraits. The text documents are made up mostly by administrative papers: meeting minutes, letters, statutes, memos, official letters, regulations and news. Therefore, according to the nature of the assembly, the methodology used was the documental analysis of case study of EBA Collection, which is regarded as an evocative of memories object, because while referring our thoughts to the past, the photography itself communicates and contributes to rethink and recreate past experiences, re-signifying them in the present. This work aims to systematize the collection, saving, organizing and keeping items to ensure better conditions of preservation. Then, information is processed towards its methodical organization. For this purpose, tables of photographic and textual elements are created, in which information is arranged according to the information content of each document. All of it with the main goal of preserving and communicating the history and memory of EBA, making the contents thus treated available to several other surveys