Sabato Rodia's towers in Watts: art, migrations, development
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| adam_text | Sabato
Rodia s
Towers in Watts
ART,
MIGRATIONS,
DEVELOPMENT
Edited by
Luisa
Del Giudice
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2OI4
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction:
Sabato
Rodia s Towers in Watts and the Search for
Common Ground
ι
LUISA
DEL
GIUDICE
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
29
JO
FARB
HERNÁNDEZ
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Structure and Performance in
Rodia s Watts Towers
69
GUGLIELMO BILANCIONI
Sam Rodia s Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession
79
PAUL A. HARRIS
Without Precedent: The Watts Towers
91
THOMAS HARRISON
An Era of Grand Ambitions: Sam
Rodia
and California Modernism
103
RICHARD CÁNDIDA
SMITH
A California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch,
the
Napa
Valley, and Italian American Identity
109
LAURA E. RUBERTO
The
Gigli
of
Noia
During Rodia s Times
125
FELICE CEPARANO
The Literary and Immigrant Contexts of Simon Rodia s Watts Towers
145
KENNETH SCAMBRAY
Sabato
Rodia s Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, and Italian Imaginaries
155
LUISA
DEL
GIUDICE
Why a Man Makes the Shoes? : Italian American Art and Philosophy
in
Sabato
Rodia s Watts Towers
183
JOSEPH SCIORRA
viii Contents
Parallel Expressions:
Artistic
Contributions
of Italian Immigrants in the
Rio de la
Plata Basin of South America at the Time of Simon
Rodia
205
GEORGE EPOLITO
Part II. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation,
Guardianship, and Cultural Heritage
Fifty Years of Guardianship: The Committee for Simon Rodia s Towers in
Watts (CSRTW) 225
JEANNE S. MORGAN
A Custody Case: Ownership of Rodia s Towers
245
JEFFREY
HERR
Nuestro
Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles s Watts Towers
251
SARAH SCHRANK
Reading the Watts Towers, Teaching Los Angeles: Storytelling and Public Art
275
MONICA BARRA
Spires and Towers Between Tangible, Intangible, and Contested
Transnational Cultural Heritage
289
ΚΑΤΙΑ
BALLACCHINO
Part III. The Watts Towers and Community Development
Artists 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) 3°9
Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression
3*7
GAIL BROWN
Simon Rodia s Watts Towers: Sociopolitical Realities, Economic
Underdevelopment, and Renaissance: Yesterday and Today
337
SHIRMEL HAYDEN
Afterword: Personal Reflections on the Watts Towers Common
Ground Initiative
343
LUISA
DEL
GIUDICE
Contents
їх
Appendices
A. Conversations
with
Rodia,
1953-1964
A.i. Interview of
S. Rodia,
with William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky,
Watts,
1953 351
A.
2.
Interview with Simon
Rodia,
by William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky,
At the Towers Site, Standing Outside Rodia s House,
1953 359
A.3. Conversation with Sam
Rodia,
by Mae Babitz and Jeanne Morgan,
Martinez, California, September,
i960 363
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
369
A.5. Report on Visits to Simon
Rodia,
Made to CSRTW, from
Jody
Farrell
(Bud
Goldstone,
Seymour Rosen, Ed Farrell and
Jody
Farrell),
Martinez and Berkeley, California, October
17, 1961;
and
San Francisco Museum of Art, October
19, 1961 375
A.6. Letter to the CSRTW, by
Claudio
Segre [Segrè], Re:
Visit with
Rodia
in Martinez, California, January
25, 1962 378
A.7. New Yorker Reporter Visits
Rodia,
Report to the CSRTW,
Re: Interview with Simon
Rodia
and Relatives, by Calvin Trillin,
Nicholas King, Jeanne Morgan, and
Beniamino Bufano,
Martinez, California, August
30, 1964 384
A.
8.
Conversations with
Rodia,
Report by Jeanne Morgan, Re: Visits
in Martinez, California, May
20,
June
15,
July
5,
August
10,
September
10, 1964,
and comments on New Yorker visit of
August
30, 1964 392
A.9. Last Conversation with Sam
Rodia,
Report by Jeanne Morgan,
Re: Visit in Martinez, California, December
22, 1964 396
A.
10.
Interviews with
S. Rodia,
by
Norma
Ashley-David, Martinez,
California, March
(1964?] 398
A.n.
Interview (Excerpts) with Rodia s Neighbors, by Bud
Goldstone,
Long Beach, California,
1963 412
A.12. Interview with
S. Rodia,
by Nicholas King, Martinez, California,
September,
i960 415
B. CSRTW Campaign to Save the Watts Towers (Online Appendix)
B.i. Nancie
Cavanna
Song Lyrics, Please Don t Tear Down the Towers
B.2. Campaigns to Save the Watts Towers: Correspondence
B.3. Miscellaneous Documents
B.4. Miscellaneous Digitized Documents
С
In Their Own Words: Interviews with
Luisa
Del
Giudice,
2009
(Online Appendix)
Ci.
Jeanne S. Morgan, Former Chair of the CSRTW
C.2. Interview with Brad Byer,
/
Build the Tower Filmmaker and
S. Rodia s Great-Nephew
χ
Contents
C-3- Edward Landler, /
Build the
Tower
Filmmaker
C.4.
Rosie Lee
Hooks, Watts Towers Arts Center Director
D. Conference and Festival Programs and Illustrations (Online Appendix)
D.i.
University of
Genova
Conference Poster,
2009
D.2. University of
Genova
Conference Program,
2009
D.3. Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations,
Development, UCLA Conference Poster,
2010
D.4. Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations,
Development, UCLA Conference Program,
2010
D.5. Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations,
Development, Festival Poster,
2010-11
D.6. Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative: Art, Migrations,
Development, Festival Illustrations
D.7. Watts in Italy, Summer
2011,
Illustrations
Notes
425
List of Contributors
459
Index
465
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