Come Alive!: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita

Come Alive: The Spirited Art of Sister Corita Sheila Wells The long artistic and teaching life I have been privileged to live was totally encouraged and affirmed by the existence and practice of Sister Corita as I moved from the secondary level into college teachng in the early 60's.This monograph celebrating her life and love of the art proc. 5Exemplary!!! 54321 Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. Exemplary!!! Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. "Exemplary!!!" according to 5Exemplary!!! 54321 Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. Exemplary!!! Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. 21. Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. 1 said Exemplary!!!. Corita shines throughout this stellar book!! I love the presentation! The narrative, quotes, photos of Corita's art are thoughtfully presented. I bought many to gift!!. Gayle said Excellent publication covering the life and works of Sister Mary. Excellent publication covering the life and works of Sister Mary Corita Kent. I am so awe-inspired even after a "Excellent publication covering the life and works of Sister Mary" according to Gayle. Excellent publication covering the life and works of Sister Mary Corita Kent. I am so awe-inspired even after a 20+ year design career! If you love color and typography as much as I do, you will truly appreciate this book!. 0+ year design career! If you love color and typography as much as I do, you will truly appreciate this book!

Her work was popular but largely neglected by the art establishment--though it was always embraced by such design luminaries as Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller and Saul Bass. Over a 35-year career she made watercolors, posters, books and banners--and most of all, serigraphs--in an accessible and dynamic style that appropriated techniques from advertising, consumerism and graffiti. The earliest, which she began showing in 1951, borrowed phrases and depicted images from the Bible; by the 1960s, she was using song lyrics and publicity slogans as raw material. At 18, Corita Kent (1918-86) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. More recently, she has been increasingly recognized as one of the most innovative and unusual Pop artists of the 1960s, battling the political and religious establishments, revolutionizing graphic design and making some of the most striking--and joyful--American art of her era, all while living and practicing as a Catholic nun. This first study of her work, organized by Julie Ault on the 20th annivers

one of the most outspoken and well-known activists within the Catholic Church during the turbulent 1960s. Would the canon of modern art recognize a womanand a woman religious at thatfor contributions that equal those of her contemporary, Andy Warhol? (Suzanne Wielgos America: The National Catholic Review)the bright billboards of California’s freshly invented media landscape were Corita’s chief inspiration; this places her in a continuum of religious artists who have recognized that faith, when argued for visually, works well when grounded in the everyday. Corita Kent, once known as Sister Mary Corita, I.H.M., never backed down from her desire to call people to the simplici