Date: 4 May<\/strong>\u00a02026 (Wednesday) All are welcome<\/p>\n This presentation will focus on the work of the Ashcan artist John Sloan (1871-1951), describing and analyzing Sloan\u2019s relation to Fordism and the rise of mass automobility over the duration of his career.\u00a0 To do so, I will begin with Sloan\u2019s familiarity with Fordist tropes, his appeals to them in his writings, and his remarkable pictorial satire \u201cFord Tank with Fleeing Figures.\u201d This preliminary discussion will then frame an analysis of what has been called the first truly typical New York Sloan\u2014\u201cDust Storm Fifth Avenue\u201d of 1906, which notably depicts a car\u2014and continue through Sloan\u2019s diarized accounts of riding in automobiles. The presentation will culminate with Sloan\u2019s 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.\u00a0 The presentation will then conclude with Sloan\u2019s satirical pictures of the effects of automobiles on indigenous life in the Southwest and with a discussion of Sloan\u2019s 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\u2019s, shaping both his subject matter and his technique over the course of his life.\u00a0 A key finding of the presentation is to identify a thematic continuity between Sloan\u2019s early, middle, and late artistic production, which are phases of his career that are often treated as disjointed.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaker: <\/strong>Oliver O\u2019Donnell 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 \u2013 Max-Planck-Institut.\u00a0 At Berkeley, he is a core collaborator on the Depictured Worlds Project, sponsored by the NOMIS Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Sloan, Fordism, and Mass Automobility Date: 4 May\u00a02026 (Wednesday) Time: 4pm-5:15pm Venue: Room 10.28, 10\/f, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU All are welcome This presentation will focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13378,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[360,22,17],"class_list":["post-13355","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2025-2026","tribe_events_cat-academic-talk","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_2025-2026","cat_academic-talk","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13377,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/13355\/revisions\/13377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Time: 4pm-5:15pm<\/strong>
\nVenue: Room 10.28, 10\/f, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU<\/strong><\/p>\n