Curious Disciplines

Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood

• Author(s): Sarah Hayden,
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Pages: 358
• ISBN_10: 0826359329
  ISBN_13: 9780826359322
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Philosophy / Aesthetics , Poetry / American / General ,

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The transnational modernist Mina Loy (1882-1966) embodied the avant-garde in many literary and artistic media. This book positions her as a theorist of the avant-garde and of what it means to be an artist. Foregrounding Loy's critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and "Degenerate" artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loy's importance in an entirely novel way. Examining the primary texts produced by those movements themselves--their manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches--Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy's poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.