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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gross, Jennifer R., editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loy, Mina--Exhibitions.

Loy, Mina.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

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

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

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

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780691239842

0691239843

OCLC:

1330196159