Professor, Art History
ottjw@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Dr. John Ott is a Professor of Art History in the School of Art, Design, and Art History. His areas of expertise include art history of the US before 1960 and African-American art history. He is a member of the Association for Critical Race Art History, the Association of Historians of American Art, the American Studies Association, the College Art Association, and the Southeastern College Art Conference.
Affiliation
Publications
Ott, John. "Iron horses: Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge, and the industrialised eye." Oxford Art Journal 28.3 (2005): 407-428.
Ott, John. "How New York stole the luxury art market: blockbuster auctions and bourgeois identity in Gilded Age America." Winterthur Portfolio 42.2/3 (2008): 133-158
Ott, John. "Labored Stereotypes: Palmer Hayden's The Janitor Who Paints." American Art 22.1 (2008): 102-115
