Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts : : Art, Migrations, Development / / ed. by Luisa Del Giudice.
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 Tower...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Studies in Italian America
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- introduction. Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts and the Search for Common Ground
- part 1. Situating Sabato Rodia and the Watts Towers: Art Movements, Cultural Contexts, and Migrations
- Local Art, Global Issues: Tales of Survival and Demise Among Contemporary Art Environments
- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Structure and Performance in Rodia’s Watts Towers
- Sam Rodia’s Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession
- Without Precedent: The Watts Towers
- An Era of Grand Ambitions: Sam Rodia and California Modernism
- A California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch, the Napa Valley, and Italian American Identity
- The Gigli of Nola During Rodia’s Times
- The Literary and Immigrant Contexts of Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers
- Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, and Italian Imaginaries
- “Why a Man Makes the Shoes?”: Italian American Art and Philosophy in Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers
- Parallel Expressions: Artistic Contributions of Italian Immigrants in the Río de la Plata Basin of South America at the Time of Simon Rodia
- part 2. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation, Guardianship, and Cultural Heritage
- Fifty Years of Guardianship: The Committee for Simon Rodia’s Towers in Watts (CSRTW)
- A Custody Case: Ownership of Rodia’s Towers
- Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles’s Watts Towers
- Reading the Watts Towers, Teaching Los Angeles: Storytelling and Public Art
- Spires and Towers Between Tangible, Intangible, and Contested Transnational Cultural Heritage
- part 3. The Watts Towers and Community Development
- Artists in Conversation
- Building Community Through Self- Awareness and Self- Expression
- Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers: Sociopolitical Realities, Economic Underdevelopment, and Renaissance: Yesterday and Today
- afterword. Personal Refl ections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative
- A.1. Interview of S. Rodia, with Bill Hale and Ray Wisniewsky
- A.2. Interview with Simon Rodia, by William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky “at the Towers Site, Standing Outside Rodia’s House,” 1953
- A.3. Conversation with Sam Rodia, by Mae Babitz and Jeanne Morgan
- A.4. Interviews with S. Rodia, by Ed Farrell, Jody Farrell, Bud Goldstone, and Seymour Rosen
- A.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
- A.6. Letter to the CSRTW, by Claudio Segre [Segrè], January 26, 1962, Re: Visit in Martinez, California, January 25, 1962
- A.7. “New Yorker Reporter [Calvin Trillin] Visits Rodia”
- A.8. Conversations with Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, September 10, 1964
- A.9. Last Conversation with Sam Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, December 23, 1964
- A.10. Interviews with S. Rodia, by Norma Ashley- David (with Jonathan David)
- A.11. Interview (Excerpts) with Rodia’s Neighbors (“Pete Scanlon’s in- laws”), by Bud Goldstone, Long Beach, California, 1963
- A.12. Interview with S. Rodia, by Nicholas King, Martinez, California, September, 1960
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index