The modern moves west : California artists and democratic culture in the twentieth century / Richard Cándida Smith.
"In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to supp...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2009. |
| Series: | Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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