Cindy Ott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cindy Ott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ott |
| SIGNATURE | OTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West
Journal Article Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West Get access Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West. Ed. by Gregory E Smoak. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $70.00. Paper, $35.00.) Cindy Ott Cindy Ott University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
Seeing History in 2-D: A Tool Kit for Interpreting Images
While many historians, and their students, possess great enthusiasm for the world of images, many fail to use images to their fullest potential as historic sources. The goal of this guide is to provide historians with theoretical and practical tools to help them analyze visual sources and to pass on that knowledge. With this guide in hand, they will be able to interpret visual sources that are vital to, yet under-utilized in, their work. They wil…
Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Dawn Strathman
Reviewed by: Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Dawn Strathman Cindy Ott (bio) Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography By Nicole Dawn Strathman. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 240. Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography By Nicole Dawn Strathman. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 240. In any good book about photographs, the images themselves should tell a valuable …
Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom
When many of us think about summer produce, we often think of the tomato, a meaty red beefsteak or a strangely shaped heirloom variety—a tomato that tastes like a tomato. Likewise, when we think of industrial-scale produce, we often think about the tomato. Its mealy and tasteless flesh encased in a perfectly round yet odorless orb is an affront to our senses and a symbol of all that is wrong with the modern food system. Because the tomato conjure…
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A Visual Critique of Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea
This essay analyzes how Burns adapts his well-known documentary style to the subject of national parks and the effects of his visual representations on viewers' understanding of the parks. It offers two main critiques: first, Burns presents an ideal of nature that inhibits viewers from perceiving how they live in the same world as the parks and that undermines the management of actual parks, and second, he misrepresents park development by minimi…
Object Analysis of the Giant Pumpkin
Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material World of American Indians and Euro-Americans
This article focuses on the authors exhibition at the Museum of the Rockies entitled “Crossing Cultural Fences” which examined the shared histories and material worlds of Indians and non-Indians in order to complicate popular concepts of racial and ethnic distinctions
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Crossing Cultural Fences: The Intersecting Material World of American Indians and Euro-Americans
This article focuses on the authors exhibition at the Museum of the Rockies entitled “Crossing Cultural Fences” which examined the shared histories and material worlds of Indians and non-Indians in order to complicate popular concepts of racial and ethnic distinctions
Object Analysis of the Giant Pumpkin
A Visual Critique of Ken Burns's The National Parks: America's Best Idea
This essay analyzes how Burns adapts his well-known documentary style to the subject of national parks and the effects of his visual representations on viewers' understanding of the parks. It offers two main critiques: first, Burns presents an ideal of nature that inhibits viewers from perceiving how they live in the same world as the parks and that undermines the management of actual parks, and second, he misrepresents park development by minimi…
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Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom
When many of us think about summer produce, we often think of the tomato, a meaty red beefsteak or a strangely shaped heirloom variety—a tomato that tastes like a tomato. Likewise, when we think of industrial-scale produce, we often think about the tomato. Its mealy and tasteless flesh encased in a perfectly round yet odorless orb is an affront to our senses and a symbol of all that is wrong with the modern food system. Because the tomato conjure…
Seeing History in 2-D: A Tool Kit for Interpreting Images
While many historians, and their students, possess great enthusiasm for the world of images, many fail to use images to their fullest potential as historic sources. The goal of this guide is to provide historians with theoretical and practical tools to help them analyze visual sources and to pass on that knowledge. With this guide in hand, they will be able to interpret visual sources that are vital to, yet under-utilized in, their work. They wil…
Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Dawn Strathman
Reviewed by: Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Dawn Strathman Cindy Ott (bio) Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography By Nicole Dawn Strathman. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 240. Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography By Nicole Dawn Strathman. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. 240. In any good book about photographs, the images themselves should tell a valuable …
Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West
Journal Article Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West Get access Western Lands, Western Voices: Essays on Public History in the American West. Ed. by Gregory E Smoak. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $70.00. Paper, $35.00.) Cindy Ott Cindy Ott University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Americ…
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