The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century

by Richard Cándida Smith

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241886
• ISBN13: 9780812241884
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"