1.Introduction. 1.1. The necessary redefinition of the concept ôartö. 1.2. Institucionalization and crisis of the modern idea of vanguard. 2. Post-war art (1945-1968). 2.1. Informalism and abstract expressionism. 2.2. From neofiguration to critical realism. Pop Art. 2.3. Neoconcrete trends, post-pictoric abstract art and minimalism. 3. From objectual art to concept art (1968-1980). 3.1. Action Art: environment, happening and performance. 3.2. Process art: povera art, land art and body art. 3.3. conceptual art and its trends. 4. postmodern sensitivity (1980-1990). 4.1. Neo-expresionism, the trans-vanguard and other figurations. 4.2. Spanish art in the eighties. 4.3. Art and the electronic medium. 5. Fin-de-siècle art. 5.1. New political art after the end of the ideologies. 5.2. Art and multiculturalism. |