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A wonderful profile of Corita Kent, a "joyous revolutionary." In the early 1960s my mother bought one of her seriegraphs that now hangs in my living room. Later she created a print quoting my father: "Wouldn't you go to prison if it would help end a war?"
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Kent, especially during the ’60s when she was at her most prolific, used art to protest and comment on the state of the world around her. In both her art and her life, Kent confronted issues such as the Vietnam War, poverty, racial... eyeondesign.aiga.org/K8frH
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92: "We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong" rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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