Noah Purifoy through the fire
Los Angeles, Univ., Diss., 2013
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Los Angeles, California
University of Southern California
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Los Angeles, Univ., Diss., 2013 This dissertation examines and contextualizes the work of Noah Purifoy. Born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1917, Noah Purifoy lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, where he died in 2004. He received an undergraduate degree from Alabama State Teachers College in 1943 and a graduate degree from Atlanta University in 1948. In 1956, just shy of his fortieth birthday, Purifoy received a BFA from Chouinard, now known as CalArts. A founding director of the Watts Towers Art Center, his earliest body of sculpture, constructed out of charred debris from the 1965 Watts Rebellion, was the basis for 66 Signs of Neon (1966), a landmark group exhibition on the riots, which traveled throughout the country |
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| Beschreibung: | Doctor of Philosophy. - Dissertation |