Synopses & Reviews
Known widely as a Catholic nun with an avant-garde flair, Corita Kent (1918andndash;1986) has a personal legacy that has tended to overshadow her extensive career as an artist. This handsomely illustrated catalogue places Kent in her rightful position among the foremost figures of pop art, such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Roy Lichtenstein. Although Kent has been largely excluded from the academic and critical discourses surrounding 1960s American art, this publication reevaluates her importance and highlights how her work questioned and expanded the boundaries of the pop art movement.
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Four essays and nearly 90 catalogue entries pull together a variety of topicsandmdash;art history, religion, politics, linguistics, race, gender, mass media, and advertisingandmdash;that influenced Kentandrsquo;s life and work during the 1960s. Eminent pop scholars delve into the relationship between her art and that of her contemporaries, and explore how her art both responded to and advanced the changes in modern-day Catholicism stemming from Vatican II. More than 200 vibrant images showcase Kentandrsquo;s ingenious screenprints, which often combine handwritten text and commercial imagery. Offering an unparalleled, rigorous study of an artist who has been largely overlooked, this book is an important contribution to scholarship as well as a fascinating presentation of Kent and her work to a wider audience.
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and#8220;[A] comprehensive book . . . Filled with woodcuts, engravings, etchings, globe gores, maps, 'flap' prints, and more, it is quite a resource for serious print collectors.and#8221;and#8212;Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books and Collections
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"Excellently researched . . . an important resource."and#8212;A. Golahny, Choice
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and#160;Winner of the 2012 International Fine Print Dealers Association Book Award
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and#160;Winner of the 2012 Roland H. Bainton Prize in the Art History category, given by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Synopsis
A definitive exploration of Corita Kent's art, looking beyond her identity as a radical nun to establish her place amid the vibrant pop art movement of the 1960s
Known widely as a Catholic nun with an avant-garde flair, Corita Kent (1918-1986) has a personal legacy that has tended to overshadow her extensive career as an artist. This handsomely illustrated catalogue places Kent in her rightful position among the foremost figures of pop art, such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Roy Lichtenstein. Although Kent has been largely excluded from the academic and critical discourses surrounding 1960s American art, this publication reevaluates her importance and highlights how her work questioned and expanded the boundaries of the pop art movement.
Four essays and nearly 90 catalogue entries pull together a variety of topics--art history, religion, politics, linguistics, race, gender, mass media, and advertising--that influenced Kent's life and work during the 1960s. Eminent pop scholars delve into the relationship between her art and that of her contemporaries, and explore how her art both responded to and advanced the changes in modern-day Catholicism stemming from Vatican II. More than 200 vibrant images showcase Kent's ingenious screenprints, which often combine handwritten text and commercial imagery. Offering an unparalleled, rigorous study of an artist who has been largely overlooked, this book is an important contribution to scholarship as well as a fascinating presentation of Kent and her work to a wider audience.
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An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Dand#252;rer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius's depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy.and#160;
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself" paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
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A definitive exploration of Corita Kentandrsquo;s art, looking beyond her identity as a radical nun to establish her place amid the vibrant pop art movement of the 1960sand#160;
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This vibrant publication positions Corita Kent in the pop art canon, pulling together interdisciplinary topics that influenced her life and work, such as religion, politics, linguistics, race, gender, and mass media.
About the Author
Susan Dackerman is consultative curator of prints at the Harvard Art Museums.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley.
Richard Meyer is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History at Stanford University.
Jennifer L. Roberts is the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.