Curious Disciplines

Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood

Sarah Hayden author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of New Mexico Press

Published:30th Apr '18

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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magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches—Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy’s poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.

"This will be regarded as the best book about Mina Loy’s writing and as a useful history of the avant-garde." — Keith Tuma, editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry

"[A] welcome addition to studies of modernism, the avant-garde, and Mina Loy. [...] Hayden’s rich prose is synthetic, analytic, and anecdotal all at once, and many of her readings are thorough, attentive, and convincingly new. The double columns are not so daunting with a critical voice generating much energy and liveliness. Set aside time to read this book."
— ALH Online Review, XVIII

ISBN: 9780826359322

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 950g

360 pages