AnneÌýWagner’s work focusesÌýparticularly on sculpture: its materials, the terms of its making, and how both partake in a wider social world. ÌýThis is the world that gives sculpture its meaning, in ways thatÌýinevitably vary over time. These topics have given shape toÌýrecent essays, and will find published form in a future book,ÌýSculpture and the Making of the Human.
Class of 1936 Professor emerita at the University of California Berkeley, she is also the author ofÌýJean-Baptiste Carpeaux:Ìý Sculptor of the Second Empire, 1986;ÌýJean-Baptiste Carpeaux:Ìý Der Tanz.ÌýÌýFrankfurt, 1989;ÌýThree Artists (Three Women):Ìý Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe, 1996;ÌýMother Stone:Ìý The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture, 2005; andÌýA House Divided:ÌýÌý2012. With T. J. Clark, she is the author ofÌýLowry and the Painting of Modern Life,ÌýTate Britain, 2013, andÌýPity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica, Reina Sofia, 2017.