In 1980's, the literature that tried to revise the artistic-cultural production of the CPC characterized it, in general lines, as dogmatic and simplistic. With this, the dissonant voices that composed the lefts in the period 1961-1964 and that had argued the artistic enrollment exhaustingly, the popular culture and social function of art were associated to the generic formularizations of the "manifesto do CPC" (written by Carlos Estevam Martins) or reduced to intrinsic relation between nationalism and populism (emphasized by Francisco Corrêa Weffort and Octávio Ianni, among others). However, the debate in the previous period to the military blow evidences a diversity and a variety of positions concerning engaged art which contributes to wat we already know.
CPC; Art; Engagement and cultural politics