“I SHOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO LOVE MY COUNTRY AND STILL LOVE JUSTICE”–CAMUS (Sister Mary Corita, 1966)
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics: Advancing the Power of Art to Educate and Inspire People to Action is an incomparable resource and a genuine inspiration: this Los Angeles archive has collected and preserved “more than 90,000 protest posters and prints” and created “traveling and online thematic exhibitions, and publications.”
Corita’s 1966 poster, featuring Albert Camus’s bracingly incisive words, had orginally been commissioned in 1962 as cover art for the Methodist Student Movement’s magazine. As the Center for the Study of Political Graphics notes: “It was an early example of Corita’s big, bold graphic pop art. She used red, white and blue to emphasize that it was patriotic to speak out, to tell the truth.”
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Susan Morgan on June 9, 2020
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