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A Catholic nun and educator, Kent embraced the language of pop art to create prints that serve as "advertisements for the common good." Adopting the poetry of commercial packaging and street signs, Kent's work promotes a humanistic Christianity and often addresses social justice. After leaving the Church in 1968, she began incorporating photographs from the news media. For example, phil and dan shows Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit peace activists who stole draft records from a Selective Service office and burned them. "I'm not a picket woman," Kent once said, "though I admire people who are; I'm not brave enough not to pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say in my art." |