Ordinary things will be signs for us / photographs by Corita ; edited by Julie Ault, Jason Fulford, and Jordan Weitzman ; with a text by Olivian Cha.

Photographer
Corita, 1918-1986 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [New York] : J&L Books : Magic Hour Press, [2023]
  • New York, NY : ARTBOOK/DAP, [2023]
  • ©2023
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 x 26 cm

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Editor
Writer of essay
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Summary note
"Corita Kent, formerly Sister Mary Corita, is known for her exuberant, colorful serigraphs and her teaching, as evidenced in her lively art classes. As a Catholic nun from 1936 until 1968, Corita lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Los Angeles. She taught lettering and layout, image finding, and art structure for 20 years in Immaculate Heart College's art department. There, she screened multiple films simultaneously, hosted guest thinkers including Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and John Cage, and guided the making of large-scale collaborative projects with students. Corita regularly took her students out for looking sessions at a used car lot or an art exhibition. While constantly looking and discovering visually, Corita shot thousands of 35 mm slides documenting references, the IHC milieu and the art department processes. For Corita, the vernacular environs of advertising, supermarkets and the city's media landscape were a source of inspiration and raw material. Her slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents,experiments, projects, Mary's Day celebrations stemming from Corita's classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites. Drawing from the Corita Art Center's vast slide collection, Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us embodies Corita's philosophy of looking"-- From publisher's website, JandLBooks.org.
Notes
"Corita Kent's slide collection encompasses a wide range of subjects: cookies, coke bottles, toys, presents, experiments, projects, Mary's Day celebrations stemming from Corita's classroom, flowers, magazines, seeds, puppets, visits with Charles and Ray Eames, street signs, trade fairs, folk art, boxes, billboards and kites"--Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9780999365557 (paperback)
  • 099936555X (paperback)
OCLC
1380460032
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