LEADER 04210cam a2200637 i 4500001 99129034955206421 005 20231214030719.0 008 230527s2023 nyua b 000 0 eng d 020 9780999365557 |qpaperback 020 099936555X |qpaperback 035 (OCoLC)on1380460032 037 W044634 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dCOO |dAPL |dGZD |dUVV |dOCLCF |dNYP |dOCLCO |dNjP 043 n-us--- 050 4 TR647 |b.C67 2023 082 04 779.092 |223 100 0 Corita, |d1918-1986, |ephotographer. 245 10 Ordinary things will be signs for us / |cphotographs by Corita ; edited by Julie Ault, Jason Fulford, and Jordan Weitzman ; with a text by Olivian Cha. 264 1 [New York] : |bJ&L Books : |bMagic Hour Press, |c[2023] 264 2 New York, NY : |bARTBOOK/DAP, |c[2023] 264 4 |c©2023 300 1 volume (unpaged) : |billustrations (chiefly color) ; |c19 x 26 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 520 "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"-- |cFrom publisher's website, JandLBooks.org. 500 "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. 600 00 Corita, |d1918-1986. 600 00 Corita, |d1918-1986 |vPictorial works. 650 0 Photography, Artistic. 650 0 Photography |zUnited States. 650 0 Women artists |zUnited States |y20th century |xSlide collections. 650 6 Photographie artistique. 650 6 Femmes artistes |zÉtats-Unis |y20e siècle |xCollections de diapositives. 650 7 art photography. |2aat 600 07 Corita, |d1918-1986 |2fast 650 7 Photography |2fast 650 7 Photography, Artistic |2fast 651 7 United States |2fast 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 photographs. |2aat 655 7 Illustrated works |2fast 655 7 Pictorial works |2fast 655 7 Illustrated works. |2lcgft 655 7 Photographs. |2lcgft 655 7 Ouvrages illustrés. |2rvmgf 655 7 Photographies. |2rvmgf 700 1 Ault, Julie, |eeditor. 700 1 Fulford, Jason, |eeditor. 700 1 Weitzman, Jordan, |eeditor. 700 1 Cha, Olivian, |ewriter of essay. 902 000088300 |wcopy |120231212151003.0 914 (OCoLC)on1380460032 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20231213 |eprocessed |f1380460032 980 230831 |e40.50 |f333136