Università Roma Tre

Deconstructing and reconstructing narratives: sculpture in the second half of the 1960s

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.
In parallel to the analysis of Process Art, Antiform and Arte Povera, specific focus are on some paradigmatic exhibitions took place in the Sixties, on international networks and on the critical debate that accompanied the renewal of the sculpture, between procedures and dematerialization.

For attending students:
H. Foster, The Crux of Minimalism, in The Return of The Real. The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA - London 1996

R. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA - London 1981 / F. Poli, La scultura del Novecento, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2006

C. Zambianchi, “Oltre l’oggetto”. Qualche considerazione su arte povera e performance, in “Ricerche di storia dell’arte”, n. 114, 2014, pp. 35-45

S. Zuliani, Senza cornice. Spazi e tempi dell’installazione, Critical Ground #4, Arshake, Roma 2015, pp. 13-75
[http://www.arshake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Critical-Grounds-04-Stefania-Zuliani-Senza-Cornice.pdf]

Selected texts analyzed during the course for which the list will be provided during the course, alongside with the bibliography for the paper.


For non-attending students:
H. Foster, R. Krauss, Y.A. Bois, B.H.D. Buchloh, Art since 1900. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Thames & Hudson, London 2004, 1960-1970

H. Foster, The Crux of Minimalism, in The Return of The Real. The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA - London 1996

R. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA - London 1981

G. Celant, Precronistoria (1976), Quodlibet, Macerata 2017

C. Zambianchi, “Oltre l’oggetto”. Qualche considerazione su arte povera e performance, in “Ricerche di storia dell’arte”, n. 114, 2014, pp. 35-45

S. Zuliani, Senza cornice. Spazi e tempi dell’installazione, Critical Ground #4, Arshake, Roma 2015, pp. 13-75
[http://www.arshake.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Critical-Grounds-04-Stefania-Zuliani-Senza-Cornice.pdf]