Sculpture's Material World | Research Seminar with Anne Wagner
Sculpture's Material World | Research Seminar with Anne Wagner
College of Arts School of Culture & Creative Arts: Material/Immaterial
Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Venue: The Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow G3 6DF
Category: Academic events
Speaker: Professor Anne Wagner
Please note the change of time and venue from original listing due to ongoing industrial action.
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By definition ‘merely’ material, sculpture’s inescapable presence is the quality it shares with every other object of human manufacture. That same physicality is fundamental to its critical force. In this seminar, Anne Wagner will take up this thesis as it relates to the work of artists from Rachel Whiteread to Mike Nelson, from Gabriel Orozco to Charles Ray - in other words, as it concerns the art of some of the most significant sculptors of the present day.
Speaker Profile
Anne Wagner (Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley) is the author of numerous influential books and essays on modern and contemporary art, including Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe (1996), Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture (2005), and A House Divided: American Art Since 1955 (2012). With T. J. Clark, she is the co-curator and co-author of Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, Tate Britain, 2013, and Pity and Terror: Picasso’s Path to Guernica, Reina Sofia, 2017. Professor Wagner is currently working on a new book about sculpture.
Presented by the History of Art Seminar Series as part of the 2019-20 Material/Immaterial season at the School of Culture & Creative Arts.
IMAGE: Detail from Gabriel Orozco, 'Heart in my Hands' 1991 MoMA