%0 Journal Article %T Arte engajada e transforma£¿£¿o social: H¨¦lio Oiticica e a exposi£¿£¿o Nova Objetividade Brasileira %A Couto %A Maria de F¨¢tima Morethy %J Estudos Hist¨®ricos (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2012 %I Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta??o de Hist¨®ria Contempor?nea do Brasil da Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas %R 10.1590/S0103-21862012000100006 %X the article analyzes the aims and the impact of one of the most important avant-garde exhibitions held in the 1960's at the museum of modern art in rio de janeiro: nova objetividade brasileira. carried out one year before the ai-5, this exhibition demonstrates the vitality of the ongoing debate about the possibility of creating "a typically brazilian culture, with its own characteristics and personality." %K h¨¦lio oiticica %K brazilian avant-garde art %K art exhibitions %K nova objetividade brasileira %K figurative art %K military dictatorship. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-21862012000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en