Sculpture timeline
Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti begins to develop his characteristic style of tense elongated bronze sculpture
British artist Anthony Caro begins welding and painting abstract metal sculpture
Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists
George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco
Tony Cragg's Raleigh is unveiled outside the Tate Gallery in his home town of Liverpool
US sculptor Richard Serra's Tilted Arc is removed from Federal Plaza, New York, after legal action by local protesters
Eduardo Paolozzi's vast bronze sculpture The Wealth of Nations is installed at South Kyle, near Edinburgh
Rachel Whiteread's Untitled (House) is a concrete cast of the interior of a house in London's East End
Anthony Gormley's massive metal Angel of the North is erected near Gateshead in northern England