What is contemporary sculpture? Is it a three dimensional, free standing object of some kind? Or can it also be an immense excavation in the wilderness? A set of photographs? Words written on a wall? Or simply the artist's whole existence and mode of being? How we define sculpture has become one of the most distinctive and controversial aspects of post-war art. Here at last is a balanced, extensively illustrated survey documenting the full range of movements and -isms by one of our most experienced critics of contemporary art.