Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent
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Author: Kent, Corita
For Corita Kent, printmaking was a populist medium to communicate with the world. Originally published in 2013 and long out of print, the most comprehensive monograph on Kent’s work returns in a brilliant showcase of prints and ephemera from all phases of her life, revealing her importance as an activist printmaker and a stylistic innovator in graphic design. It includes the 60s serigraphs for which she is best known, early abstractions and text pieces as well as lyrical works made in the 70/80s.This activist spirit came most alive in the 1960s, when her posters and murals addressed subjects such as racism and poverty, US military brutalities in Vietnam and conflicts between radical and conservative positions in the Catholic Church. Her posters, murals and signature serigraphs combined messages of love and faith with images from popular culture and inventive use of type and colour. Full of the lively, colourful work that is so iconically hers, this volume presents four decades of a life dedicated to serving others through and with the language of art. 'Someday is Now' is punctuated by scholarship, selected writings by Kent herself, interviews with former students and collaborators, and responses to her work from a wide variety of artists, curators and designers.Artist, activist, teacher and devout Catholic Corita Kent (1918–86) eloquently combined her passions for faith and politics during her rich and varied career. As a teacher at Los Angeles’ Immaculate Heart College, she fostered a creative and collaborative arts community and developed an interest in printmaking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986.
ISBN 9781636812052. DelMonico Books. hb. 256 pages. 330 colour, 41 b/w ills. 25.4 x 33 cm.
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For Corita Kent, printmaking was a populist medium to communicate with the world. Originally published in 2013 and long out of print, the most comprehensive monograph on Kent’s work returns in a brilliant showcase of prints and ephemera from all phases of her life, revealing her importance as an activist printmaker and a stylistic innovator in graphic design. It includes the 60s serigraphs for which she is best known, early abstractions and text pieces as well as lyrical works made in the 70/80s.This activist spirit came most alive in the 1960s, when her posters and murals addressed subjects such as racism and poverty, US military brutalities in Vietnam and conflicts between radical and conservative positions in the Catholic Church. Her posters, murals and signature serigraphs combined messages of love and faith with images from popular culture and inventive use of type and colour. Full of the lively, colourful work that is so iconically hers, this volume presents four decades of a life dedicated to serving others through and with the language of art. 'Someday is Now' is punctuated by scholarship, selected writings by Kent herself, interviews with former students and collaborators, and responses to her work from a wide variety of artists, curators and designers.Artist, activist, teacher and devout Catholic Corita Kent (1918–86) eloquently combined her passions for faith and politics during her rich and varied career. As a teacher at Los Angeles’ Immaculate Heart College, she fostered a creative and collaborative arts community and developed an interest in printmaking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986.
ISBN 9781636812052. DelMonico Books. hb. 256 pages. 330 colour, 41 b/w ills. 25.4 x 33 cm.
available