Large Vintage.20th Century Sister Mary Corita Kent Signed Abstract Lithograph -"Damn Everything but the Circus"

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This 1960s large vintage Sister Mary Corita Kent lithograph (offset) poster was based on the iconic E.E. Cummings poem "Damn … Read more This 1960s large vintage Sister Mary Corita Kent lithograph (offset) poster was based on the iconic E.E. Cummings poem "Damn Everything But The Circus". Vibrant color and great composition.

“Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...”

― E.E. Cummings

This is an authentic signed (in the plate) 1968 lithograph poster from the work of Sister Mary Corita Kent from the 1968 United Church Press portfolio. Very hippie, inspirational and Iconic Pop Art. This is one of the rarer ones. A great focal point for any room in your home or office
This vintage print is not any kind of later reproduction, photocopy or reprint. Please refer to our photos. The fold marks are original, as issued. The print will be shipped as originally folded.Only the one lithograph is for sale. The other info may be printed out if so desired.

Despite Chairish's statement that shipping may take longer than 3 - 5 days we always ship w/in 3 business days. Delivery usually takes no more than 7 days.

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." See less