Corita Kent

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Corita Kent (born November 20, 1918 - September 18, 1986 ), aka Sister Mary Corita Kent , born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge , Iowa, was an American nun, artist, teacher, philosopher and political activist. Sister Corita is one of the most innovative and unusual Pop Art artists of the 1960s.

Life

In 1936 she was (until 1968) a nun in the order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary . Kent taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. There she drafted "10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life", which is often incorrectly attributed to John Cage, but which actually became known through him. She was u. a. friends with Alfred Hitchcock , John Cage , Saul Bass , Buckminster Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames .

Works

Your pictures are u. a. in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Museum of Modern Art , the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the Museum Ludwig , the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art , the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Quotes

“Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make. "

10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life

  • Rule One: Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while.
  • Rule Two: General duties of a student - pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.
  • Rule Three: General duties of a teacher - pull everything out of your students.
  • Rule Four: Consider everything an experiment.
  • Rule Five: be self-disciplined - this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
  • Rule Six: Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make.
  • Rule Seven: The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.
  • Rule Sight: Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
  • Rule Sine: Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
  • Rule Ten: “We're breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. "(John Cage)
  • Hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything - it might come in handy later.

literature

  • Karen M. Kennelly: Article Corita Kent ; in: Susan Ware (Ed.): Notable American women. Vol. 5, Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts et al. a. 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Crow: 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage. April 16, 2014, accessed November 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ Maria Popova: 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage and Sister Corita Kent. August 10, 2012, accessed November 25, 2014 .
  3. ^ 10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life by John Cage. May 31, 2012, accessed November 25, 2014 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kent, Corita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kent, Mary Corita (full name); Kent, Frances Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nun, artist, teacher, philosopher, and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Dodge , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1986