Curious Disciplines
Mina Loy and Avant-Garde Artisthood
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Published:30th Apr '18
Should be back in stock very soon
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magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speeches—Sarah Hayden uses close readings of Loy’s poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.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