Corita Kent’s printmaking practice brings together appropriated images and texts, whose juxtaposition encourages viewers to reflect upon their own understandings of a range of political issues. Her appropriated materials primarily come from popular newspapers, magazines, print advertisements, and product packaging. She also incorporates other elements of popular culture, including song lyrics and text from novels and poetry. News of the week is one her most politically charged silkscreens, which splices together images of the Vietnam War from the covers of popular magazines with a drawing of a transatlantic slave ship, and an excerpt of a Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”–a poem that engages with notions of enslavement and violence. By juxtaposing these images of war and slavery, Kent subjects the media’s portrayal of the Vietnam War to a different set of discourses, and encourages the viewer to consider war through a new set of lenses.