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SUMMARY:John Sloan\, Fordism\, and Mass Automobility
DESCRIPTION:John Sloan\, Fordism\, and Mass Automobility\nDate: 4 May 2026 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4pm-5:15pm\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome \nThis presentation will focus on the work of the Ashcan artist John Sloan (1871-1951)\, describing and analyzing Sloan’s relation to Fordism and the rise of mass automobility over the duration of his career.  To do so\, I will begin with Sloan’s familiarity with Fordist tropes\, his appeals to them in his writings\, and his remarkable pictorial satire “Ford Tank with Fleeing Figures.” This preliminary discussion will then frame an analysis of what has been called the first truly typical New York Sloan—“Dust Storm Fifth Avenue” of 1906\, which notably depicts a car—and continue through Sloan’s diarized accounts of riding in automobiles. The presentation will culminate with Sloan’s images from Gloucester\, Massachusetts and a discussion of his use of the Maratta scales of colors and pigments\, a commercially produced painting system that can be analogized to Fordist production.  The presentation will then conclude with Sloan’s satirical pictures of the effects of automobiles on indigenous life in the Southwest and with a discussion of Sloan’s relationship to indigenous art and culture. Overall\, the presentation demonstrates how Fordism and the power dynamics associated with automobiles was a recurring interest of Sloan’s\, shaping both his subject matter and his technique over the course of his life.  A key finding of the presentation is to identify a thematic continuity between Sloan’s early\, middle\, and late artistic production\, which are phases of his career that are often treated as disjointed. \nSpeaker: Oliver O’Donnell is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Basel\, and has held research appointments at the Warburg Institute and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut.  At Berkeley\, he is a core collaborator on the Depictured Worlds Project\, sponsored by the NOMIS Foundation.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/john-sloan-fordism-and-mass-automobility/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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SUMMARY:“Hogan-Minded”:  Race and Place in  Georgia O’Keeffe’s Southwest
DESCRIPTION:“Hogan-Minded”: Race and Place in Georgia O’Keeffe’s Southwest\nDate: 12 May 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 10:15am-11:15am\nVenue: Room 10.28\, 10/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU \nAll are welcome \nThis talk argues that past interpretations of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexican oeuvre have obscured the extent\, character\, and stakes of her engagement with Southwestern Indigenous and Hispanic cultures. It contests the popular notion that after an initial\, ostensibly more touristic period\, O’Keeffe’s New Mexican work evinced a unique sense of place that had little to do with contemporary racial attitudes. Instead\, it highlights the ongoing influence of tourist contexts (including visits to Indigenous ceremonials and involvement in regional commodity markets) on her work beyond the early 1930s\, and suggests that\, in its representation of buildings\, objects\, and places of spiritual significance to New Mexican Indigenous and Hispanic groups\, her Southwestern oeuvre frequently relied upon and perpetuated romantic stereotypes about those cultures circulating within interwar Anglo-New Mexico and the Manhattan avant-garde. This argument unfolds with the help of several case studies\, including discussion of her representations of Native American material objects\, and especially Hopi katsina tithu\, which she found spiritually and personally resonant yet failed to fully understand\, and consideration of her depictions of Indigenous holy sites\, which she often recast through the lenses of personal ownership\, vague spiritual meaning\, and modernist experimentation. Ultimately\, O’Keeffe’s paintings and writings make clear that she saw the region much as countless others had before: both deeply informed by the presence and history of its Native peoples and open\, empty\, and ripe for claiming. \nSpeaker: James Denison is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. A graduate of Bowdoin College\, he completed his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 2023.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/hogan-minded-race-and-place-in-georgia-okeeffes-southwest/
LOCATION:Department Seminar Room\, 1028\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2025-2026,Academic Talk,Seminar
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