Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun
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This article is part of a series on the history of graphic design and social activism in California from Artbound. Produced in partnership with Hyperallergic.
California s culture and art movements have long enjoyed a unique freedom from East Coast and European dogmas. This manifests itself in social, creative and aesthetic realms characterized by experimentation, openness and independence. Graphic design is a key element of defining this California way of life, from the clean, unencumbered lines of mid-century modernism to the flamboyant psychedelia of counterculture posters and publications, and the post-modern graphics of the 1980s and 90s. A mecca of consumerism, it is also a place of great creativity, freedom and social consciousness, where the status quo undergoes constant renovation, writes Louise Sandhaus in Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986. Without solid ground, tradition lacks secure footing; old r
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kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent
Corita Kent, to the everyday miracle, 2021. Installation view, kaufmann repetto, Milan. Image: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy: Corita Art Center, Los Angeles and kaufmann repetto Milano / New York.
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.-kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent (b. 1918, Fort Dodge, d. 1986, Boston). Developed in collaboration with the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, to the everyday miracle presents a retrospective view of Kent s work, bringing together over 40 prints and watercolors as well as a selection of archival materials spanning from the early 1950s until her death in 1986.
Corita Kent was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice whose work reflects the ascendancy of Pop Art, the spiritual renewal of the Second Vatican Council and the political activism of the 1960s. A catholic nun for more than three decades, Kent was deeply committed to cultural, social, and aesthetic innovation. He
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