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Amy Ogata

Professor of Art History
Amy Ogata
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email amyogata@usc.edu Office THH 355 Office Phone (213) 7409508 x09508

Research & Practice Areas

Architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the US; material culture; history of childhood and children’s spaces; European Art Nouveau; history of applied arts

Biography

Amy F. Ogata’s research explores the history of modern European and American architecture, design, and material culture. Her book Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America (Minnesota, 2013) historicizes the idea of childhood creativity, and shows how material goods such as toys, playrooms, playgrounds, books, schools, and museums produced for the American baby boom participated actively in forming the notion of the creative child after World War II. The book won a Wyeth grant from the College Art Association and the 2016 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award...

Education

  • Ph.D. Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1996
  • M.A. Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1992
  • A.B. Art History, Smith College, 1987

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Professor of Art History, University of Southern California, 2014 –
    • Professor, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2013-2014
    • Associate Professor , The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 2004 – 2013
    • Assistant Professor, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, 1998 – 2004

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the US; material culture; history of childhood and children’s spaces; European Art Nouveau; history of applied arts

    Research Specialties

    Architecture and design of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the US; material culture; history of childhood and children’s spaces; European Art Nouveau; history of applied arts

  • Book

    • Ogata, A. F., Weber, S. (2014). Swedish Wooden Toys. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
    • Ogata, A. F. (2013). Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
    • Ogata, A. F. (2013). Fredun Shapur: Playing with Design. Paris: Editions Piqpoq.
    • Ogata, A. F. (2001). Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
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