In this Book
- Curious Disciplines: Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of New Mexico Press
- Series: Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
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magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches—Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy’s poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.
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magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches—Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy’s poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xiii
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Part One. Loy and Futurist Artisthood
- Chapter One. The Futurist Artist TM
- pp. 15-24
- Part Two. Loy and Dadaist Artisthood
- Chapter Five. Dadaist Virginology
- pp. 73-90
- Part Three. Loy and Surrealist Artisthood
- Part Four. Loy and “Degenerate” Artisthood
- Part Five. Loy’s Legacies
- pp. 227-228
- Chapter Twelve. Susana Gardner
- pp. 229-240
- Chapter Thirteen. Judith Goldman
- pp. 241-260
- Chapter Fourteen. Laura Moriarty
- pp. 261-280
- Conclusion
- pp. 281-284
- Bibliography
- pp. 333-350