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...some crucial respects a Catholic still, and his work is charged with religious references and rhapsodic diatribes of moral insult that verge on panic. Jesus makes frequent guest appearances, and so do felt banners that parody the soppy semiabstract devotional art of the all-but-forgotten Sister Corita Kent, a liberal nun of the '60s. I AM USELESS TO THE CULTURE, BUT GOD LOVES ME, one of | Kelley's banners reads. He is as deeply immersed in the religious aura of his infancy, pre-Vatican II, as any Chicano postmodernist doing lurid Madonnas...
...remain among its many symbols, Jerde and Suss man call their effervescent design Festive Federalism. But it is much more. It is a rich synthesis of 20th century art, from Mird's squiggles and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-woogie to Charles Eames' playfulness and Sister Mary Corita's sense of celebration, brought together, as Jerde puts it, "to express a moment rather than memorialize an epic...
Other winning facets of Red Line travel include the famous gas tank painting, which may be spied by gazing leftward after the Savin Hill stop. At the edge of the water stands a huge receptacle owned by Boston Gas, where a spacy artist named Corita was hired to make the tank more "colorful." Intentionally or not, she came up with a few broad paint strokes--the blue one, at a good examining glimpse, is a profile of none other than Ho Chi Minh, with his wispy beard curling to a point at the bottom. Later, at the Ashmont-to-Mattapan...
Perhaps even more than priests, nuns often retain a warm affection for the communal life of religion they have left. Corita says of her former community: "So many super people gathered under one roof. It was a rich experience." In 1967, the mother superior of the Glenmary Sisters of Cincinnati led 44 of her nuns out of the small, rural-oriented order. The situation was a prototype of the Immaculate Heart dispute: a progressive faced the opposition of an archbishop (Karl Alter of Cincinnati, now retired) who felt that things were moving too fast. The Glenmarys' mother superior, now Miss...
...lock step"). After graduating, she entered the convent and began teaching English in its high school. The order sent her to Stanford for a doctorate in English literature (1948), and she became college president in 1957. Six years later she was elected Mother General. Says Corita Kent, the ex-nun and artist who is the order's most famous alumna: "She is a quiet leader, perfect for the age of Aquarius, when, you know, there are no big heads...