Corita, 1918-1986

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1918 - 1986

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Art and the Alphabet / Kent C ; Delaunay S ; Indiana R ; Isou I ; Kindersley D ; Munari B ; Charlip R., 1978

Item

Identifier: CC-24847-25300

Scope and Contents

Contains examples of alphabets from languages other than English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Blessed Are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence / Merton, Thomas ; Corita M ; Baez J., 1967

Item

Identifier: CC-30782-32228

Scope and Contents

The cover by Sister Mary Corita reprints a colored rubberstamped text of the title and subtitle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita by Julie Ault, 2006

Item

Identifier: CC-47364-50108

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "At 18, Corita Kent (1918-1986) 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. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the order to devote herself to making her own work. 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 of it, 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. Eschewing convention, she produced cheap, readily available multiples, including a postage stamp. 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. More...

Dates: 2006

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Damn Everthing But the Circus, 1970

Item

Identifier: CC-08050-8210

Scope and Contents

The prints are reproductions of the illustrations in the book that have been printed by offset or silkscreen process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books