Sculpture, the performative turn and the affluent society. Musings on the presence of a prosperous audience, the inheritance of modernist sculptural and conceptual paradigms and new institutional realities in the 1960s. Paper presentation at the conference Sculpture on the Crossroads - Between Socio-political Pragmatism, Economic Possibilities and Aesthetical Contemplation. Organised by the Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Split, Croatia.