Susan Dackerman

Corita Kent and the Language of Pop Susan Dackerman

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: 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. Publisher Marketing: 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."

Contributor Bio:  Dackerman, Susan Susan Dackerman is Curator of the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Contributor Bio:  Meyer, Richard Richard "MaximumTacolord" Meyer is professionally awesome. He's the webmaster of tacolord.com and tends to write humor focused stuff. Sometimes he gazes into the void and witnesses the end of all life and gets really deep and metaphysical. When that happens, he'll write more philosophy focused stuff. Contributor Bio:  Bryan-Wilson, Julia Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era and her writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Artforum, Oxford Art Journal, and other venues.