Research Catalog

Title

Mina Loy : strangeness is inevitable / [edited by Jennifer R. Gross].

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gross, Jennifer R.
• Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Description

xv, 216 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

"Mina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most inscrutable artists and poets of the twentieth century. Born in London and formally trained as an artist in London, Munich, and Paris, Loy was elected as a member of the Salon d'Automne in Paris at the age of 23. Her modernist enlightenment came through her introduction to the Italian Futurists, and her subsequent structurally startling and provocative poetry and manifesto-writing brought her immediate notoriety and the embrace of the American avant-garde. Upon her arrival in New York in 1916 she was featured as the prototype of the "Modern Woman" in a profile in the New York Evening Sun. Her writings were published in Camera Work, Little Review, Rogue, and elsewhere, and her art was included in the groundbreaking 1917 Independents' Exhibition. She was Marcel Duchamp's date for the Blind Man's Ball-a friendship that lasted throughout their lives, as Duchamp organized Loy's final exhibition in 1955. Today, Loy is remembered primarily as a poet. Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable is the first book to examine the full scope of her career, including her visual work. The book follows Loy on her transatlantic passage to America as an immigrant in 1936 and features over 50 of her paintings, drawings, and constructions alongside a selection of her poetry and writings, all of which reveal her omnivorous creativity as an image-maker, author, and cultural arbiter. These works are complemented by extensive, never-before-assembled archival materials that provide context for her art within the arc of her extraordinary life. Contributing authors will show how indispensable of a force she was in introducing Italian futurism to America, radicalizing the aspirations of feminism, expanding the aesthetics of surrealism, and presaging American pop art through her assemblage constructions. Introducing the full breadth of Loy's creative expression-painting, drawing, poetry, prose, art criticism, and fashion design-Mina Loy presents the remarkable vision of this iconoclast"--

Subject

• Loy, Mina > Exhibitions
• Loy, Mina

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.

Contents

Director's Foreword / Anne Collins Goodyear -- Apology of Genius -- Feminist Manifesto -- Truant of Heaven : the artist Mina Loy / Jennifer R. Gross -- Moreover, the Moon -- "The Starry Sky" of Wyndham Lewis -- Mina Loy: Art of The Unbeautiful True / Ann Lauterbach -- Brancusi's Golden Bird -- Lunar Baedeker -- From Rogue to Rags: Mina Loy's Constructions / Dawn Ades -- The Widow's Jazz -- Mina Loy: "I'm Not The Museum" / Roger Conover -- The Artist and the public -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Future Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Photography and Copyright Credits.

Call Number

JQF 24-235

ISBN

• 9780691239842
• 0691239843
• 9780691250465 (canceled/invalid)
• 0691250464 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022028752

OCLC

1330196159

Title

Mina Loy : strangeness is inevitable / [edited by Jennifer R. Gross].

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.

Added Author

Gross, Jennifer R., editor.

Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780691250465

Research Call Number

JQF 24-235