Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook496 pages12 hours
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A multi-faceted exploration of Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers provides an insightful, panoramic study of the man, his monuments, and their cultural/social/physical environments. The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkable Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do "something big." Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts Towers in Los Angeles are both a personal artistic expression and a collective symbol of Nuestro Pueblo--Our Town/Our People. Featuring fresh and innovative examinations that mine deeper and broader than ever before, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts is a much anticipated revisitation of the man and his towers. In 1919, Sabato Rodia purchased a triangular plot of land in a multiethnic, working-class, semi-rural district. He set to work on an unusual building project in his own yard. By night, Rodia dreamed and excogitated, and by day he built. He experimented with form, color, texture, cement mixtures, and construction techniques. He built, tore down, and re-built. As an artist completely possessed by his work, he was often derided as an incomprehensible crazy man. Providing a multifaceted, holistic understanding of Rodia, the towers, and the cultural/social/physical environment within which the towers and their maker can be understood, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts compiles essays from twenty authors, offering perspectives from the arts, the communities involved in the preservation and interpretation of the towers, and the academy. Most of the contributions originated at two interdisciplinary conferences held in Los Angeles and in Italy: "Art & Migration: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts, Los Angeles" and "The Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations, Development." The Watts Towers are wondrous objects of art and architecture as well as the expression and embodiment of the resolve of a singular artistic genius to do something great. But they also recount the heroic civic efforts (art and social action) to save them, both of which continue to this day to evoke awe and inspiration. Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts presents a well-rounded tribute to one man's tenacious labor of love.
Unavailable
Related to Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Related ebooks
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCommunities of Ludlow: Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUS public diplomacy in socialist Yugoslavia, 1950–70: Soft culture, cold partners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenties in Western Canada: Papers of the Western Canadian Studies Conference, March 1972 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gateway Arch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUranium Seekers: A Photo-Essay Tribute to Miners (Working) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMidtown Sacramento: Creative Soul of the City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnionists in Virginia: Politics, Secession and Their Plan to Prevent Civil War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChurch and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReasserting America in the 1970s: U.S. public diplomacy and the rebuilding of America’s image abroad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCommemorations: The Politics of National Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History Of The Great Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaste Heritage: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGilded Age Richmond: Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLos Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Golden Era in St. Petersburg: Postwar Prosperity in The Sunshine City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLoisaida as Urban Laboratory: Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews