Anne Wagner
{{short description|American art historian}}
{{For|the politician and diplomat|Ann Wagner}}
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Anne Middleton Wagner, often known as Anne Wagner, is an art historian. Class of 1936 Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, she is now based in London, where in 2013–14 she was Visiting Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art.{{cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/wagner/ |title=Prof. Anne Wagner Visiting Professor |work=University of York |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331145417/https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/wagner/ |archivedate=March 31, 2014}}
Education, life and work
Wagner attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1971. In 1974 she received her B.A. and went to Harvard University for her Ph.D. which she received in 1980.{{cite web |url=http://arthistory.berkeley.edu/person/1786355-anne-wagner |title=Anne Wagner Professor Emerita |website=UC Berkeley History of Art Department}} In 2010 Anne Wagner and her husband T. J. Clark, who is also an art historian and taught at UC Berkeley, retired and moved to London. In 2013 she and Clark co-curated "Lowry and the 'Painting of Modern Life,'" a major exhibition of the British Painter L. S. Lowry at Tate Britain in 2013 "to argue for his achievement as Britain’s pre-eminent painter of the industrial city."{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lowry-and-painting-modern-life |title=Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life |website=Tate}} She has also published on contemporary performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Laurie Anderson,{{cite journal |last1=Wagner |first1=Anne |date=Winter 2000 |title=Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of Presence |url=https://www.mission17.org/documents/WagnerAnne_PerformanceVideoPresence.pdf |journal=October |volume=91 |pages=59-80 |access-date=17 March 2025}} and contemporary land artists like Nancy Holt.{{cite web |last1=Wagner |first1=Anne |title=Being There: Art and the Politics of Place (Summer 2005) |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/being-there-art-and-the-politics-of-place-171617/ |publisher=Artforum |access-date=17 March 2025}}
Selected publications
- Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire, 1986.{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32212142 |title=Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux : sculptor of the Second Empire |via=Worldcat|oclc=32212142 }}
- Three Artists (Three Women), 1996.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520214330 |title=Three Artists (Three Women) |work=University of California Press}}
- Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture, 2005.{{cite web |url=http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300106855/mother-stone |title=Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture |website=Yale University Press}}
- A House Divided: On Recent American Art, 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270978 |title=A House Divided |work=University of California Press}}
See also
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