Mixed Media by John Ott
Mixed Media investigates Black and white artists' efforts toward racial integration, from the infamous 1931 Scottsboro Boys trial until Brown v. Board's 1954 desegregation of public schools. Each chapter attends to a distinctive visual ecology fostered by institutions and individuals committed to desegregation to varying degrees, including the nationwide public art initiatives of the New Deal, the imagery and cultural programs of the multiracial Popular Front, graphics produced for CIO-member labor unions, Jacob Lawrence's war paintings and other visual propaganda of the armed forces, and the struggle of New York abstract painters of African descent to navigate the criticism, museums, and markets of the mainstream art world. Together, they explore the divergent approaches to conceptualizing and implementing racial integration along the liberal-radical axis.
John Ott is author of Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California and coauthor of Muybridge and Mobility.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520417588 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520417585 |
| Title | Mixed Media |
| Author | John Ott |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2026-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 316 |
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