
Prompted by this passage, Rollins and the K.O.S. In the unfinished final chapter, Rossman finds a job with a mysterious and surreal Midwestern traveling theater, where he encounters hundreds of women dressed as angels playing golden horns. Written between 19 and published posthumously in 1927, Amerika follows teenager Karl Rossmann as he is banished from his home in Prague and sent to New York City, where he suffers one ordeal after another. members for a series of larger paintings based on Franz Kafka’s incomplete first novel Amerika. These works are studies made by individual K.O.S.

painted directly on texts, creating works that actualized their learning experience. (Kids of Survival) followed a collaborative process of “educating by art making.” Rather than reading books as received knowledge, Rollins and K.O.S. Rollins and his group of young artists known as K.O.S. In 1981 the artist Tim Rollins developed a curriculum for Intermediate School 52 in the South Bronx that incorporated art-making with reading and writing for students classified as academically and emotionally at risk.
