The Political Pop Art of Sister Corita Kent

By: Huw Lemmey

In 1960s Los Angeles, a radical nun created artworks that turned the imagery of American capitalism on its head.

Corita in studio, c. 1965. (Image courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles.)

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For the two decades that followed the Second World War, the rolling machine of modern art was moving inexorably towards total abstraction; huge paintings depicted ever-blanker voids, fields of colour expressing simple yet profound truths about humanity. Outside the galleries, the opposite was happening. Advertising spends were increasing exponentially. Television and billboards flooded cities with […]

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For the two decades that followed the Second World War, the rolling machine of modern art was moving inexorably towards total abstraction; huge paintings depicted ever-blanker voids, fields of colour expressing simple yet profound truths about humanity. Outside the galleries, the opposite was happening. Advertising spends were increasing exponentially. Television and billboards flooded cities with […]

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For the two decades that followed the Second World War, the rolling machine of modern art was moving inexorably towards total abstraction; huge paintings depicted ever-blanker voids, fields of colour expressing simple yet profound truths about humanity. Outside the galleries, the opposite was happening. Advertising spends were increasing exponentially. Television and billboards flooded cities with […]

For the two decades that followed the Second World War, the rolling machine of modern art was moving inexorably towards total abstraction; huge paintings depicted ever-blanker voids, fields of colour expressing simple yet profound truths about humanity. Outside the galleries, the opposite was happening. Advertising spends were increasing exponentially. Television and billboards flooded cities with […]

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