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020			_a9780823260669 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9781322965239 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aNA2930 _b.S233 2014
049			_aMAIN
245	1	0	_aSabato Rodia's towers in Watts : _bart, migrations, development / _cedited by Luisa Del Giudice.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York, New York : _bFordham University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (493 pages) : _billustrations.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aCritical Studies In Italian America
504			_a1 at the end of each chapters and index.
505	0	0	_aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the Search for Common Ground; Part I. 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.
505	0	0	_aA California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch, the Napa Valley, and Italian American IdentityThe 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 Rio de la Plata Basin of South America at the Time of Simon Rodia.
505	0	0	_aPart II. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation, Guardianship, and Cultural HeritageFifty 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 III. The Watts Towers and Community Development.
505	0	0	_aArtists in Conversation: R. Judson Powell, John Outterbridge, Charles Dickson, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokava, Augustine Aguirre, Artist's Panel moderated by Rosie Lee Hooks (Saturday, October 23, 2010, 121 Dodd Hall, UCLA) Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression; Simon Rodia's Watts Towers: Sociopolitical Realities, Economic Underdevelopment, and Renaissance: Yesterday and Today; Afterword: Personal Reflections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative; Appendices; A. Conversations with Rodia, 1953-1964.
505	0	0	_aA.1. Interview of S. Rodia, with William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky, Watts, 1953A.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, Martinez, California, September, 1960; A.4. Interviews, Part A, B, with S. Rodia, by Ed Farrell, Jody Farrell, Bud Goldstone, and Seymour Rosen, Martinez; and University of California, Berkeley.
520	0		_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 muchanticipated revisitation of the man and his to.
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600	1	0	_aRodia, Simon, _d1879-1965 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aSimon Rodia's Towers (Los Angeles, Calif.)
650		4	_aRodia, Simon, _x1879-1965 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		4	_aSimon Rodia''s Towers (Los Angeles, Calif.)
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aDel Giudice, Luisa, _e5
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=953582&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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