Corita Kent: Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us
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Author: Ault, Julie
Corita Kent, formerly sister Mary Corita, was known for her iconic art, innovative teaching methods and messages of social justice. She taught for 20 years in Immaculate Heart College’s art department, and was central to establishing its reputation as a hub of creativity and liberal thinking. This book embodies Corita’s philosophy of looking, presenting her photographs of vernacular inspiration – from street signs and folk art to kites, parades and fairs.As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. There, she taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure, screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students. Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the city’s media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents, experiments, projects, Mary’s Day celebrations stemming from Corita’s classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Corita Kent (1918–86) was known for her iconic art, innovative teaching methods and messages of social justice. Born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, she entered the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hollywood at age 18. As a professor and later chair of the art department, she helped establish its reputation as a hub of creativity and liberal thinking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular, showing in more than 230 exhibitions and held in public and private collections around the world. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986.
ISBN 9780999365557. J&L Books/Magic Hour Press. pb. 144 pages. 335 colour ills. 19.1 x 25.4 cm.
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Corita Kent, formerly sister Mary Corita, was known for her iconic art, innovative teaching methods and messages of social justice. She taught for 20 years in Immaculate Heart College’s art department, and was central to establishing its reputation as a hub of creativity and liberal thinking. This book embodies Corita’s philosophy of looking, presenting her photographs of vernacular inspiration – from street signs and folk art to kites, parades and fairs.As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. There, she taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure, screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students. Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the city’s media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents, experiments, projects, Mary’s Day celebrations stemming from Corita’s classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Corita Kent (1918–86) was known for her iconic art, innovative teaching methods and messages of social justice. Born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, she entered the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Hollywood at age 18. As a professor and later chair of the art department, she helped establish its reputation as a hub of creativity and liberal thinking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular, showing in more than 230 exhibitions and held in public and private collections around the world. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986.
ISBN 9780999365557. J&L Books/Magic Hour Press. pb. 144 pages. 335 colour ills. 19.1 x 25.4 cm.
available