Travels with Mina Loy
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Linda A Kinnahan author Suzanne W Churchill author Susan Rosenbaum author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Michigan Publishing Services
Publishing:15th Sep '26
£27.99
This title is due to be published on 15th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Artist and writer Mina Loy (1882-1966) traversed continents, participated in Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, and depicted poetic and painterly vistas ranging from lunar landscapes to the gritty streets of the Bowery. Travels with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde, a companion text to the award-winning, multi-authored web resource Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde, offers an illustrated tour of Mina Loy’s long and varied career, contextualized with in-depth explorations of key places that shaped her life and work. Shedding new light on Loy's poetic responses to Italy, her theatrical explorations in New York City, and her forays into the museums of Paris and New York, the book brings in newly discovered and critically overlooked Loy works, as well as fresh timelines and surveys of the critical corpus on her creative output. This essential guidebook to Mina Loy charts her migrations across geography, movements among artistic circles and people, and transit across arts to illuminate her evolving aesthetics, politics, and artistic commitments.
“A thoroughly researched, beautifully written exploration of Modernist transatlantic networks, places, friendships, and aesthetic itineraries, which throws new light on Mina Loy's poems, essays, plays, designs and assemblages. A comprehensive study of a multimedia artist ante-litteram, graced by beautiful archival images and by an excellent scholarly apparatus.”
-- Laura Scuriatti, Bard College Berlin“Taking their cue from ballet rather than avant-garde combativeness, these esteemed authors present Mina Loy as a trailblazer of the en dehors garde, executing her artistic vision as gracefully as dancers’ legs explore undulating paths. Strategically peripheral, radically gendered, Loy drew new lines through Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism. Emulating their subject, Suzanne Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, and Susan Rosenbaum move immersively with Loy through as-yet-unexplored critical spaces geographical, cultural, and archival, striking an unerring balance between Loy’s complex artistry and the needs and pleasures of admirers migrating their way into her dazzling world.”
-- Sarah Crangle, University of SuISBN: 9781643151052
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470 pages