Anne听Wagner鈥檚 work focuses听particularly on sculpture: its materials, the terms of its making, and how both partake in a wider social world. 听This is the world that gives sculpture its meaning, in ways that听inevitably vary over time. These topics have given shape to听recent essays, and will find published form in a future book,听Sculpture and the Making of the Human.
Class of 1936 Professor emerita at the University of California Berkeley, she is also the author of听Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux:听 Sculptor of the Second Empire, 1986;听Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux:听 Der Tanz.听听Frankfurt, 1989;听Three Artists (Three Women):听 Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O鈥橩eeffe, 1996;听Mother Stone:听 The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture, 2005; and听A House Divided:听听2012. With T. J. Clark, she is the author of听Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life,听Tate Britain, 2013, and听Pity and Terror: Picasso鈥檚 Path to Guernica, Reina Sofia, 2017.
