JOHN WILLIAM OTT
University of California, Los Angeles
Art History Department
1875 Lucile
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323/661-7390
johnott@ucla.edu

Brief Biography:
John Ott is a Doctoral candidate in Art History at UCLA working on his dissertation, "The Gilded Rush: Art Patronage and Cultural Mythologies in Victorian California," as a ACLS/Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellow in American Art.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "Pan-American Vistas: the 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition, American Anthropology and the Mexican Revolution," Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, April 1999
• "Missionary Work: labor, Nostalgia, Philanthropy and the California Mission Revival, 1883-1920," American Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, November 1998
• "Golden Age or Mining 'Camp'?": Crisis of Victorian Masculinity in Charles Nahl's Mythic forty-niners," Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association, Berkeley, May 1997
• "Pulp Fictions: Orange Crate Labels and the Mythology of Southern California, 1885-1920," Kamerling Material Culture Symposium, San Diego, October 1996

Public Programs:

Research Assistant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Researched and curated documentary materials and ephemera for a large survey exhibition on the art and culture of California in the 20th century. June 1998-present

Publications:

• "Landscapes of Consumption: Auto Tourism and Visual Culture in California, 1920-1940," in Made in California, ed. Tom Frick. University of California Press (forthcoming, October 2000)
• "Art of the Gold Rush," Pacific Historical Review (forthcoming).

Recommendations:

Book: Grey Brechin's Imperial San Francisco

John Ott has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 01-Feb-2000 .