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WORD OF ART: APRIL DAMMANN’S BOOK ABOUT CORITA KENT IS A MASTERPIECE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 5, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Specials, Visual Arts

It's true that Warhol was beginning to exploit commercialism and to show irony in our everyday life, but Corita really influenced many more people than she was influenced by ...

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Specials, Visual Arts Tagged With: Angel City Press, April Dammann, Back Bay, Boston, Botolph Gallery, Celia Hubbard, Charles Eames, Corita Kent, Dorchester, East Coast, Gas Tank, IHM, International Signal Code, Los Angeles, Love stamp, Southern California, survival with style

SPECIAL EXCERPT: ‘CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY.’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 5, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Specials

Image via Angel City Press

 

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

The following is an excerpt from Corita Kent. Art and Soul. The Biography. by April Dammann. Published by Angel City Press, 2015.

 

In the summer of 1968, Sister Corita takes what might be a lifesaving sabbatical in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, staying with her friend and East Coast gallerist, Celia Hubbard (a Catholic convert) of the Botolph Gallery, where Sister Corita’s work is a centerpiece ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Specials Tagged With: Angel City Press, April Dammann, Back Bay, Boston, Botolph Gallery, Celia Hubbard, Charles Eames, Corita Kent, Dorchester, East Coast, Gas Tank, IHM, International Signal Code, Los Angeles, Love stamp, Southern California, survival with style

ON THE GRID: CLIMBING THE DORCHESTER GAS TANK IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE AND ART

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted October 21, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

In 1971, artist and former activist nun Corita Kent was commissioned to tackle the largest copyrighted work in the world: the freestanding Rainbow Swash gas tank towering above the Southeast Expressway off I-93, overlooking Dorchester Bay under the Hub skyline.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston History, Boston painters, Corita Kent, Dorchester, Gas Tank, Ho Chi Minh, IUPAT, John Doherty, National Grid, Rainbow Swath history, Vietman, West Virginia Gas Leak

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