John Ott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Ott |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Ott |
| SIGNATURE | OTT J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Art and Economics
Battle Station MoMA
It is a remarkable accident of history that Jacob Lawrence, already one of the most celebrated black artists at mid-century, served on the first naval boat with a racially integrated crew during World War II. In addition to creating dozens of works while a Coast Guard combat artist, he also produced after his discharge the 14-painting War Series of 1947. By and large, scholars—even art historians practicing a social history of art—have considered…
Graphic Consciousness
The 1940s were a visual cultural renaissance for an ascendant Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). But since the ecology of the “white cube” was unsuitable terrain for the advocacy of working-class solidarity and integration, many artists turned to social spaces, media, and means of production and distribution beyond the conventional art world to engage a working-class audience on its own cultural turf. Compounding the challenge of address…
Reform in Redface
How New York Stole the Luxury Art Market
Scholarship on the domestic art market has generally addressed questions of supply and the role of cultural intermediaries. By contrast, this study of blockbuster auction sales in Victorian America demonstrates that newly ascendant entrepreneurial elites drove changes in the art trade and further suggests that how collectors acquired artworks is just as critical to understanding consumer preferences and the shape and evolution of markets as what …
Labored Stereotypes
Iron Horses
Journal Article Iron Horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Industrialised Eye Get access John Ott John Ott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 2005, Pages 407–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kci035 Published: 01 October 2005
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Iron Horses
Journal Article Iron Horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Industrialised Eye Get access John Ott John Ott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 2005, Pages 407–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kci035 Published: 01 October 2005
How New York Stole the Luxury Art Market
Scholarship on the domestic art market has generally addressed questions of supply and the role of cultural intermediaries. By contrast, this study of blockbuster auction sales in Victorian America demonstrates that newly ascendant entrepreneurial elites drove changes in the art trade and further suggests that how collectors acquired artworks is just as critical to understanding consumer preferences and the shape and evolution of markets as what …
Labored Stereotypes
Reform in Redface
Graphic Consciousness
The 1940s were a visual cultural renaissance for an ascendant Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). But since the ecology of the “white cube” was unsuitable terrain for the advocacy of working-class solidarity and integration, many artists turned to social spaces, media, and means of production and distribution beyond the conventional art world to engage a working-class audience on its own cultural turf. Compounding the challenge of address…
Battle Station MoMA
It is a remarkable accident of history that Jacob Lawrence, already one of the most celebrated black artists at mid-century, served on the first naval boat with a racially integrated crew during World War II. In addition to creating dozens of works while a Coast Guard combat artist, he also produced after his discharge the 14-painting War Series of 1947. By and large, scholars—even art historians practicing a social history of art—have considered…
Art and Economics
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Art (8 works) · Art history (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Performance art (3 works)