001477650 000__ 10714nam\a22011655i\4500 001477650 001__ 1477650 001477650 003__ DE-B1597 001477650 005__ 20231026034820.0 001477650 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477650 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477650 008__ 230103t20142014nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477650 020__ $$a9780823260669 001477650 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823260669$$2doi 001477650 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555503 001477650 035__ $$a(OCoLC)889268967 001477650 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477650 0410_ $$aeng 001477650 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477650 050_4 $$aNA2930$$b.S233 2014eb 001477650 072_7 $$aSOC008000$$2bisacsh 001477650 08204 $$a725.97092$$223 001477650 24500 $$aSabato Rodia's Towers in Watts :$$bArt, Migrations, Development /$$ced. by Luisa Del Giudice. 001477650 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2014] 001477650 264_4 $$c©2014 001477650 300__ $$a1 online resource (496 p.) 001477650 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477650 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477650 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477650 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477650 4900_ $$aCritical Studies in Italian America 001477650 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tintroduction. Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the Search for Common Ground -- $$tpart 1. Situating Sabato Rodia and the Watts Towers: Art Movements, Cultural Contexts, and Migrations -- $$tLocal Art, Global Issues: Tales of Survival and Demise Among Contemporary Art Environments -- $$tEverybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Structure and Performance in Rodia's Watts Towers -- $$tSam Rodia's Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession -- $$tWithout Precedent: The Watts Towers -- $$tAn Era of Grand Ambitions: Sam Rodia and California Modernism -- $$tA California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch, the Napa Valley, and Italian American Identity -- $$tThe Gigli of Nola During Rodia's Times -- $$tThe Literary and Immigrant Contexts of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers -- $$tSabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, and Italian Imaginaries -- $$t"Why a Man Makes the Shoes?": Italian American Art and Philosophy in Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers -- $$tParallel Expressions: Artistic Contributions of Italian Immigrants in the Río de la Plata Basin of South America at the Time of Simon Rodia -- $$tpart 2. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation, Guardianship, and Cultural Heritage -- $$tFifty Years of Guardianship: The Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts (CSRTW) -- $$tA Custody Case: Ownership of Rodia's Towers -- $$tNuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles's Watts Towers -- $$tReading the Watts Towers, Teaching Los Angeles: Storytelling and Public Art -- $$tSpires and Towers Between Tangible, Intangible, and Contested Transnational Cultural Heritage -- $$tpart 3. The Watts Towers and Community Development -- $$tArtists in Conversation -- $$tBuilding Community Through Self- Awareness and Self- Expression -- $$tSimon Rodia's Watts Towers: Sociopolitical Realities, Economic Underdevelopment, and Renaissance: Yesterday and Today -- $$tafterword. Personal Refl ections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative -- $$tA.1. Interview of S. Rodia, with Bill Hale and Ray Wisniewsky -- $$tA.2. Interview with Simon Rodia, by William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky "at the Towers Site, Standing Outside Rodia's House," 1953 -- $$tA.3. Conversation with Sam Rodia, by Mae Babitz and Jeanne Morgan -- $$tA.4. Interviews with S. Rodia, by Ed Farrell, Jody Farrell, Bud Goldstone, and Seymour Rosen -- $$tA.5. Report on Visits to Simon Rodia, Made to CSRTW, from Jody Farrell (November, 1961), Re: A.4. Interview with Rodia, by Bud Goldstone, Seymour Rosen, Ed Farrell, and Jody Farrell -- $$tA.6. Letter to the CSRTW, by Claudio Segre [Segrè], January 26, 1962, Re: Visit in Martinez, California, January 25, 1962 -- $$tA.7. "New Yorker Reporter [Calvin Trillin] Visits Rodia" -- $$tA.8. Conversations with Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, September 10, 1964 -- $$tA.9. Last Conversation with Sam Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, December 23, 1964 -- $$tA.10. Interviews with S. Rodia, by Norma Ashley- David (with Jonathan David) -- $$tA.11. Interview (Excerpts) with Rodia's Neighbors ("Pete Scanlon's in- laws"), by Bud Goldstone, Long Beach, California, 1963 -- $$tA.12. Interview with S. Rodia, by Nicholas King, Martinez, California, September, 1960 -- $$tNotes -- $$tContributors -- $$tIndex 001477650 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477650 520__ $$aThe 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.A portion of royalties from this book will go to support the work of the Watts Towers Arts Center. 001477650 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477650 546__ $$aIn English. 001477650 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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