Someday is now (Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery)
Title:
Someday is now : the art of Corita Kent / edited by Ian Berry, Michael Duncan ; contributions by Ian Berry, Cynthia Burlingham, Alexandra Carrera, Michael Duncan, Megan Hyde.
Publisher:
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 30 cm
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, and three other institutions at later dates. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Someday is now / Michael Duncan -- A very democratic form / Cynthia Burlingham -- Oral history / compiled by Alexandra Carrera : 1918-1962 ; 1963-1967 ; 1968-1986 -- Artists respond / compiled by Ian Berry : Julie Ault ; Jason Simon ; Juliette Bellocq ; Aaron Rose ; Karen Carson ; Ciara Phillips ; Lorraine Wild ; Lari Pittman ; Deborah Kass ; Roy Dowell ; Andrea Bowers ; Pae White ; Steve Hurd ; Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe ; Jim Isermann ; Mike Kelley ; Barbara Loste and Frances Snyder ; Jim Hodges.
Summary:
"This full-scale survey of Corita Kent's work includes prints and ephemera from all phases of her life, revealing her importance as an activist printmaker and a sylistic innovator in graphic design. 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 color. 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 war, and after she had left the church, she continued to be active in Boston's urban issues, producing prints and commissioned works until her death in 1986. Full of the lively, colorful 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"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.