O poeta anfíbio e a história das mentalidades (Otacílio de Azevedo e a cidade de Fortaleza)

Abstract

It is possible to say that the poetic and pictoric work of Otacílio de Azevedo (1896-1978), under the view of history of mentalities and of material culture, might contribute to a better understanding of the history of Fortaleza. This study is based on these changes in behavior of historiography to point, in Otacílio de Azevedo’s plastic and literary work, historicist elements of the city of Fortaleza, once, as artistic objects, it is concluded that his poetry and his painting bring inside the ways of production and the social relationships that had started them.