Arte engajada e transforma？？o social: Hélio Oiticica e a exposi？？o Nova Objetividade Brasileira

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."