Reflections on past Lectures, Conferences and Symposiums:Being There: Anne Wagner in the Berkeley Years |
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| April 9th and 10th, 2010 This two-day event honored the work and mentorship of Anne Wagner, who has been a professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988. In September 2010, she will take up the newly created position of Henry Moore Foundation Research Curator at Tate Britain. The event was comprised of two parts. On the evening of Friday, Aril 9th, at the Berkeley Art Museum theater, Anne presented the lecture "Women's Time: Martin and Truitt in the Moment of Minimalism," in which she proposed a feminist account of abstraction that wrestled with the profound nuances of time and experience in the work of these two artists. At a symposium at the Banatao Auditorium the following day, sixteen of Anne's former students took the stage to speak to her impact on them and their work—as an advisor, scholar, writer, viewer of art, and person. A reunion of sorts, with speakers coming from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Maine, Berlin, and many other locales, the day's talks vividly demonstrated the continuing resonance, far beyond the Berkeley campus, of these former students' encounters with Anne. The speakers, all of whom are professors and curators actively contributing to the art historical field, included Elise Archias, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Huey Copeland, Sharon Corwin, Sarah Evans, Stacy Garfinkel, Robin Greeley, Sarah Hamill, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Linda Kim, Sabine Kriebel, Amy Lyford, Eve Meltzer, Richard Meyer, Julian Myers, and Bibi Obler. The event concluded with Anne, in conversation with Kaja Silverman, reflecting on her career-long engagement with feminism and sculpture and discussing her forthcoming book of collected essays, A House Divided: On recent American Art, which will be published by the University of California Press in 2011. |
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