Talk:Corita Kent

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Peer Review
This page originally has solid information, most of the advance work would be adding greater detail about Corita. Line 27 doesn't seem to be revised but more unnecessary wording added. The basis of the original article does have fluent grammar. Her “artistic style” piece is extremely lengthy, several lines can be contributed to “Career” section. The article is missing her family background, if that information can be located.

All of information seems to be neutral and historical. If it is difficult to find much more information, I would organize the information in a way that the reader has a better understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lexichristina6598 (talk • contribs) 19:05, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

To quote or not to quote
The change as follows is mine, as I forgot to login before posting:


 * 1) (cur | prev) 06:59, 20 November 2014‎ 24.56.124.204 (talk)‎ . . (10,460 bytes) (+239)‎ . . (Source was needed but a trusted educational institutional source said nothing of being "friends" and, even though this source quoted her classes inspiring such prominent artists, it did not say they attended them or even met her. Changed to be correct.) (undo)

She may or may not have been "friends" with them but, according to Skidmore College sources quoting an interview with Tang Dayton, "her classes were an avant-garde mecca" for the named Artistic figures of Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller.

If someone can word this better, aller de l'avant. I looked through many sources but most incorrectly quoted from the previous version of this Wikipedia page; I finally found the trustworthy source I quoted and, thus, changed the page to reflect factual information to the best of my knowledge.

This erroneous practice is tainting human knowledge faster than the Illuminati rewriting history books. People don't quote their sources on Wikipedia and word it wrong, giving it the wrong meaning and then causing others that quote and trust Wikipedia to also have a non-avant-garde source.

It is no wonder a former history professor of mine said we cannot use Wikipedia as a source for anything! I am out to change this where I can; however, please remove the quotes from the Wikipedia page of discussion if I was not supposed to encapsulate my change in them. As an English Professor, I have known to use quotations on literal quotes, word for word, when writing a research paper.

I will use Wikipedia's double italics(' ') encapsulation to make it in italics, as an alternative format of quotes, thus revising it once again. Johnakabean (talk) 07:19, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * The italics were extremely confusing:
 * Her classes were an avant-garde mecca for such prominent, ground-breaking artists and inventors of Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames.
 * Italics are not a generally understood "alternative format of quotes". I have revised that ¶ somewhat, to make it a paraphrase rather than a quotation. --Thnidu (talk) 07:59, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

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moving CV items from main space to talk
I removed this CV list from the main space. It does not add to the value of the article.WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

1980

 * Corita, a retrospective at the deCordova Museum

2000

 * 2000, The Big G Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent's 1960s Pop, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles (travelling exhibition exploring parallels between the work of Corita Kent and 15 contemporary Los Angeles artists)

2006

 * Dissent!, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (an exhibition exploring the subversive history of printmaking)

2007

 * 2007, If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, Tate St Ives (travelling exhibition)

2008

 * A Passion for the Possible: The Works of Sister Corita, Monster Children Gallery, Sydney

2013

 * The Gospel According to Corita Kent, Solo Show, Parson House Gallery, Assonet, US
 * The Corita Kent Exhibition, Solo Show, The Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, US
 * There Will Be New Rules Next Week, Solo Show, Dundee Contemporary Arts Center, Dundee, Scotland
 * Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, Solo Show,
 * Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, US
 * Tell It to My Heart, Group Show, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
 * Culturgest, Group Show, Lisbon, Portugal
 * Artists Space, Group Show, New York, US
 * Decade of Dissent: Democracy in Action 1965-1976, Group Show, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, US
 * Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art, Group Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A., US
 * Air de Pied-à-terre, Group Show, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, US
 * Elements, Rudiments, and Principles, Group Show, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, US

2014

 * Let the Sun Shine In – A Retrospective, Solo Show, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * Corita Kent, Solo Show, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
 * Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, Solo Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US

2015

 * Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California, USA
 * Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, September 3, 2015 – January 3, 2016, Harvard Art Museums; February 13, 2016 – May 8, 2016, San Antonio Museum of Art
 * Corita Kent: Footnotes and Headlines at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University

2016

 * Sister Corita's Summer of Love, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
 * Corita Kent, Spiritual Pop, Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon, US

2017

 * Sister Corita's Summer of Love, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2018

 * Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 * Corita Kent: Get With the Action, Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, Ditchling, UK

No Inuit Reservation in British Columbia
added (?) with the edit summary Inuits are on the Arctic coast. There are NO Inuit people in British Columbia. While that statement is somewhat untrue, as there are Inuit people in BC, there are no Inuit reservations there. Please see List of Indian reserves in British Columbia.

Peaceray (talk) 17:32, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Silkscreen print Stop the Bombing
The article says: By the 1960s, her work started becoming increasingly political. For example, her silkscreen print, stop the bombing (1967) is a large piece protesting the use of nuclear weaponry in bold, blue letters against a white and red background.

But this is not correct. The silkscreen print, stop the bombing from 1967 was a protest against the ongoing bombing in Vietnam (Operation Rolling Thunder 1965-1968)

Here is the transcribed text of the screen print:

Of course, she did oppose nuclear weaponry, but this print is about conventional warfare and herbicidal warfare in Vietnam.--2003:CF:3F30:1914:75AF:4FBE:762C:31B8 (talk) 10:56, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

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