Post-impressionism: the language of structure -- Symbolist painting and art nouveau -- Tradition and innovation in architecture: 1880-1914 -- Early modern sculpture: Rodin to Brancusi -- Expressionism -- Cubism and abstract art -- Dada and surrealism -- The shaping of a new architecture: 1919-1940 -- Art between the wars -- Postwar European art -- The American contribution: from action painting to minimal art -- The diffusion of the new architecture: 1954-1975 -- The dematerialized object: art of technology, environment and idea