Download or read book The Los Angeles Watts Towers written by Bud Goldstone and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia are one of the unique treasures of Los Angeles and the product of one man's obsession. Rodia, a poor Italian immigrant, settled in a sleepy railway junction south of downtown in 1921 and spent the next thirty-four years single-handedly assembling a frenzy of shapes and color. Rising to one hundred feet, the towers were built without machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds - or plans!" "Bud Goldstone, who knew Rodia personally, and Arloa Paquin Goldstone have worked to preserve the towers since 1959. They tell the exciting story of how the towers were first rescued from demolition by the City of Los Angeles itself and then saved from natural and man-made disasters. They present new biographical information about Rodia and his innovative techniques and discuss the towers as art, as architecture, and as a singular expression of urban culture in Southern California."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Simon Rodia s Towers in Watts written by Seymour Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wonderful Towers of Watts written by Patricia Zelver and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible artwork of an Italian immigrant who followed his dream of monumental proportions in the impoverished Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles is revealed in this fascinating and engaging true story. A Reading Rainbow selection! Simon (Sam) Rodia had no formal engineering or architectural training. Yet, over the course of three decades, he constructed an artistic masterpiece in his own backyard – the Watts Towers. Using all kinds of things other people had thrown away, such as broken bottles and tiles, pieces of mirror and glass, seashells, and bits of pottery, he adorned the collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers. His imaginative salvaging and perseverance can be seen today, as people from all over the world still come to marvel at Sam’s dream.

Download or read book Dream Something Big written by Dianna Hutts Aston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1921 and 1955, Italian immigrant Simon Rodia transformed broken glass, seashells, pottery, and a dream to "do something big" into a U.S. National Landmark. Readers watch the towers rise from his little plot of land in Watts, California, through the eyes of a fictional girl as she grows and raises her own children. Chronicled in stunningly detailed collage that mimics Rodia's found-object art, this thirty-four-year journey becomes a mesmerizing testament to perseverance and possibility. A final, innovative "build-your-own-tower" activity makes this multicultural, intergenerational tribute a classroom natural and a perfect gift-sure to encourage kids to follow their own big dreams.

Download or read book Iconic L A written by Gloria Koenig and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Los Angeles is a city whose buildings define it, a city whose buildings are instantly recognizable. A bestseller in hardcover, Iconic L.A. has been completely updated and revised to include Case Study House #8, the famed steel-and- glass masterpiece designed by Charles and Ray Eames"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Art and the City written by Sarah Schrank and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Art and the City" explores the contentious relationship between civic politics and visual culture in Los Angeles. Struggles between civic leaders and modernist artists to define civic identity and control public space highlight the significance of the arts as a site of political contest in the twentieth century.

Download or read book Bottle Houses written by Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the world of folk artist Grandma Prisbrey.

Download or read book Betye Saar written by Carol S. Eliel and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents Betye Saar's sketchbooks--which she has kept during her entire career--for the first time and offers insights into the artist's creative process. A child of the Great Depression and one of the only African American students in her UCLA art program, Betye Saar has, over the course of more than six decades, made work that exposes stereotypes and injustices based on race and gender. From early prints and watercolors to Joseph Cornell-inspired assemblages and full-scale sculptural tableaux, her work has inspired generations of artists. This ingeniously designed publication plays off the format of Saar's original sketchbooks. Made throughout her extraordinary career, Saar's sketches are an integral part of her creative process and offer a greater understanding of the themes woven into her finished works, which are also featured in the book. Saar's sources and influences range from Simon Rodia's Watts Towers and Haitian Vodou fetishes to Australian Aboriginal paintings, Native American leatherwork, and African American history, literature, and music. An original, intimate, and valuable resource for Saar's many fans, this book will also educate future generations about Saar's significant contributions to American art. Published with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Download or read book Seventeen Television written by Justin Maurer and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Now Dig This written by Kellie Jones and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.

Download or read book Art Worlds written by Howard Saul Becker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beautiful Junk written by Jon Madian and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy learns how an old man came to build three towers out of "beautiful junk" in the Watts section of Los Angeles, California.

Download or read book Watts Towers of Simon Rodia Los Angeles California written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California Out of the Box written by Christine Echeverri and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Out of the Box uses story as a basis for an interdisciplinary exploration of Golden State history, life and earth science, geography, social studies, the arts, and more! The content spans prehistory through the 1930s. This homeschool/progressive education curriculum includes a teacher guide with comprehension questions, reproducible student pages (for within a family), and answer keys; it is geared for students in grades 3-6, but suggestions are included for families with younger siblings. Note: families must purchase the 8 historical fiction and resource books separately, or request them from their local library.

Download or read book Betye Saar written by Betye Saar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at De Domijnen in Sittard, the Netherlands, July 28 - November 15, 2015 and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 30 - May 1, 2016.

Download or read book L A Object David Hammons Body Prints written by Steve Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the work of David Hammons and his peers, assemblage artists working on the West Coast in the 1960s and 1970s.

Download or read book The Art of Assemblage written by William Chapin Seitz and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Assemblage art consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found-objects."--Boundless.