Mark Gilberg

Preservation of Watts Towers, 1921-2021 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1921, an Italian immigrant named Sabato Rodia purchased a property in Watts, California, and started building a series of sculptures and decorative features in his backyard, including three open, pyramidal-shaped towers two of which are nearly 100 feet tall. Though Rodia referred to his creation as Nuestro Pueblo (Our Town), today, it is known collectively as the Watts Towers. Constructed over 35 years, Watts Towers remains a marvel of structural engineering and architecture and is widely recognized as one of the finest examples of outsider art or land-based art in the United States. Rodia abandoned his property in 1954 never to return. Over the years Watts Towers has experienced a long history of vandalism and neglect punctuated by major conservation campaigns and interventions. This book describes in great detail the history of these preservation efforts with a view to collecting and synthesizing all available information into one coherent study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outskirts Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781977269638
• Artikelnr.: 69256301

Autorenporträt

Mark Gilberg received his BS and MSc degrees in inorganic chemistry from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in archaeological conservation from the University of London Institute of Archaeology. In 1983, he joined the Canadian Conservation Institute as a conservation scientist, and in 1987 he was appointed scientific officer in the Materials Conservation Division of the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia. From 1994 to 2003. Dr. Gilberg was Research Director at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, an office of the National Park Service based in Natchitoches, Louisiana, which focuses on the application of science and technology to historic preservation. In 2005, he was appointed Director of the Conservation Center at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and supervised collection management and art preparation staff. Dr. Gilberg retired from LACMA in 2022 after serving as project manager for the restoration of Watts Towers from 2019-2021.