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"Grandma" Prisbrey's bottle village

Title
"Grandma" Prisbrey's bottle village / Tressa Prisbrey ; translated into German and with a foreword by Kathi Hofer = Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort von Kathi Hofer.
Author
Prisbrey, Tressa
Publication
Leipzig : Spector Books, [2021]

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Additional Authors
Hofer, Kathi, 1981-
Description
120 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
"On the outskirts of Simi Valley, California, stands a cluster of 16 buildings designed and built by American artist Tressa Prisbrey (1896-1988). Between 1956 and 1972, Prisbrey laboriously mined a local landfill for glass bottles and shards of pottery to use in her construction of the collection of buildings now known as Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village. Prisbrey repurposed the discarded items as building material for sculptures, walkways, shrines and buildings initially intended to house her collection of around 17,000 pencils. The project is now a dazzling folkloric art environment composed of concrete and castoffs, dolls and debris. Here, Austrian artist Kathi Hofer (born 1981) presents her documentation of the Bottle Village along with Prisbrey's text and other supplementary materials.--amazon.com
Subject
  • Prisbrey, Tressa
  • Folk artists > California
  • Folk art > California
  • Refuse as art material > California
  • Vernacular architecture > California
  • Folk art
  • United States
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Language (note)
  • In both English and German.
Call Number
JQD 22-189
ISBN
  • 3959054033
  • 9783959054034
OCLC
1156622706
Author
Prisbrey, Tressa, author.
Title
"Grandma" Prisbrey's bottle village / Tressa Prisbrey ; translated into German and with a foreword by Kathi Hofer = Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort von Kathi Hofer.
Publisher
Leipzig : Spector Books, [2021]
Edition
First edition = 1. Auflage.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
In both English and German.
Added Author
Hofer, Kathi, 1981- writer of supplementary textual content, conceptor.
Research Call Number
JQD 22-189
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