Sister Corita Print I HAVE LOVED YOU 1960s Pop Art Chayefsky Excerpt GIDEON 1968

Description: 1960s Pop Art Print, "I Have Loved You " by Sister Mary Corita Kent Sister Corita created this serigraph in 1963. This is an original 1968 print from that work titled "I Have Loved You" from United Church Press, an authentic offset vintage print! The smaller text is an excerpt from the script of Paddy Chayefsky's 1961 play, Gideon, highlighting in large, bold print the two key lines. The idea is that God's love is persuasive and not coercive. It is Bright fluorescent shades of purple lavender, orange and blue and has the words, I Have Loved You, Very hippie, inspirational and pop artsy. Measures 10x14 inches. Published by United Church Press. United Church Press published two versions of this print. They are identical in every way except that some omit the copyright information. You can choose either one that displays the copyright or one that does not display the copyright. In excellent shape and will be shipped in a stiff cardboard photo mailer to prevent bending. Corita Kent (1918-1986) was a pioneering, Los Angeles-based artist and designer. For over three decades, Corita, as she is commonly referred to, experimented in printmaking, producing a prodigious and groundbreaking body of work that combines faith, activism, and teaching with messages of acceptance and hope. Her vibrant, Pop-inspired prints from the 1960s pose philosophical questions about racism, war, poverty, and religion and remain iconic symbols of that period in American history. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Corita taught at the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College from 1947 through 1968. At IHC, Corita developed her own version of Pop art, mixing bright, bold imagery with provocative texts pulled from a range of secular and religious sources, including street signs, scripture, poetry, philosophy, advertising, and pop song lyrics. She used printmaking as a populist medium to communicate with the world, and her avant-garde designs appeared widely as billboards, book jackets, illustrations, and posters. By the mid-1960s Corita and IHC’s art department had become legendary, frequently bringing such guests as John Cage, Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, Saul Bass, and Alfred Hitchcock. Dubbed the “joyous revolutionary” by artist Ben Shahn, Corita lectured extensively, appeared on television and radio talk shows across the country, and on the cover of Newsweek in 1967. As a teacher, Corita inspired her students to discover new ways of experiencing the world. She asked them to see with fresh eyes through the use of a "finder," an empty 35mm slide mount that students looked through to frame arresting compositions and images. Seeking out revelation in the everyday, students explored grocery stores, car dealerships, and the streets of Hollywood. As Corita’s friend, theologian Harvey Cox, noted, “Like a priest, a shaman, a magician, she could pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the luminous, the only, and the hope filled.” Print is NOT a serigraph. This is an offset print reproduction of one of Sister Corita's serigraph prints. Published in 1968 by United Church Press.

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