Someday is now : the art of Corita Kent
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Someday is now : the art of Corita Kent
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College , DelMonico Books・Prestel, c2013
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This publication accompanies the exhibition Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, curated by Ian Berry and Michael Duncan, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, January 19-July 28, 2013; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, June 6-Sep. 14, 2014; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 31-April 18, 2015; Pasadena Museum of California Art, June 14-Oct. 11 2015
Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-245)
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Artist, activist, teacher, and devout Catholic, Corita Kent (1918 - 1986) eloquently combined her passions for faith and politics during her rich and varied career. As a teacher at LA's Immaculate Heart College, she fostered a creative and collaborative arts community and developed an interest in printmaking. Her posters, murals, and signature serigraphs combined messages of love and faith with images from popular culture and inventive use of type and colour. For Kent, printmaking was a populist medium to communicate with the world around her. This activist spirit came most alive in the 1960s, when her posters and murals addressed subjects like racism and poverty, U.S. military brutalities in Vietnam, and conflicts between radical and conservative positions in the Catholic Church. Even after the Vietnam war and after she had left the church, she continued to be active in Boston's urban issues, where she produced prints and commissioned works until her death in 1986. Full of the lively colourful work that was so iconically hers, this volume presents four decades of a life dedicated to serving others through and with the language of art.
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