Università Roma Tre

Course content (36 hours)
The course focuses on the renewal in the field of sculpture in the second half of the 1960s. This crucial moment for the progress of contemporary art witnessed the passage from the object, as a self-contained, immutable form, to the environment and the action, taken as a new relationship established between the sculptural project and the body, nature and public space.

Content of the seminar (36 hours)
Coverage in greater depth of several themes discussed in the course. The specific focus is on certain paradigmatic exhibition events through which to outline the renewal of sculpture in the contemporary era and to analyze the critical debate that accompanied this renewal. The seminar includes visits to museums and temporary exhibitions.

Program:
R. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1981.

Selected essays for which the list will be provided during the course (materials supplied in PDF format).

Non-attending students:
R. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1981.

C. Baldacci, C. Ricci, Quando è scultura, et. al / Edizioni, Milano 2010.