1. The problems facing sculpture in the modern age. 2. The beginnings of modern sculpture. 2.1. The end of a long tradition and a renewed future: Rodin. 2.2. Revising classicism: Maillol. 2.3. The discovery of primitive art: Picasso and Brancusi. 3. The impact of the vanguards. 3.1. Sculpture and cubist and constructivist montages: Picasso and Tatlin. 3.2. Objects relating to Dadaísm and the ludic and oneiric objects of Surrealism: Duchamp, Giacometti and Miró. 3.3. The first sculptures in welded metal: Picasso and González. 4. Sculpture of the forties and fifties. 4.1. Recovering monumental scale and public spaces: Calder and Moore. 4.2. The poetry of materials and space: Chillida. 5. Sculpture from the sixties to the eighties: from objetual to conceptual art. 5.1. Pop Art objects: Oldenburg. 5.2. Minimalism and primary structures: Judd and Andre. 5.3. Land art or the dissipation of objects in space: Smithson, De María and Long. 5.4. Povera and conceptual art: Merz and Kosuth. 5.5. Post-conceptual manifestations, atmospheres, rooms and video-facilities. |