Information about Mina LoyMina Loy (1882-1966)Beautiful and intelligent cosmopolitan, polyglot author scandalous erotic verses, biting satires and elegies destructive, progressive inventor creative painting fantasies and artistic designs, all embodied Mina Loy. As one of the protagonists of the European-American modernism Mina Loy much on intellectual and cultural exchange all major avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century was involved. Within a decade (about 1915-1925), she gained a reputation as an emancipated woman, more so an almost legendary figure, "Who, if not, is the modern woman," proclaimed the New York Evening Sun in 1917 and rose the writer and artist to the rank of a female prototype of the modern age. Of the art training in
Victorian London, where Mina Loy was born in 1882, towards
the artistic circles of Munich at the end of the 19th
Century, from the Parisian studio of the bohemians in
Montparnasse in the futuristic Florence, and finally of the
New York avant-garde of the 1910s back to the Paris of the
Lost Generation - based on their life and work stations can
be an almost complete picture of all artistic and literary
significant international movements of the first half of the
twentieth century stand. Your name appears in the written
testimonies intellectual protagonists of that time, who loved
and appreciated Mina Loy, from William Carlos Williams about
Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and TS Eliot. She took her
portraits by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, with whom she had a
more than forty-year friendship admired her compositions.
Joyce, Freud, Brancusi, Jules Pascin and also Marinetti and
Papini were their model. The two Italians, with whom she
stood during their Florence stay in contact, they should
ultimately inspire humorous caricature Verssatiren. Between
1907 and 1916, Mina Loy lived in Florence and started here at
futurist influence post her first poems. So they transferred
the picturesque theories Umberto Boccioni in verses while
their linguistic experiments definitely have bonds of
elements and principles of the Italian avant-garde
literature. In Florence, they also started on her rhyme book
Lunar Baedeker, which should be the only one in her literary
oeuvre to work. The 1923 edition, published in France is the
only of the author herself, edited edition. This was followed
by three more runs of text versions and with additions, which
rather the bandwidth of Mina Loy's literary production to
illustrate the forties. In that time dating her last poems,
as Loys literary activity should focus from then on
throughout the writing of (hitherto largely unpublished)
autobiographical novels allegorical character. Cited Literature: Francini , Antonella: Antologia della poesia americana (Biblioteca di Repubblica, Poesia straniera, 15), Rome 2004. Kenneth W. Fields, The rhetoric of artefice: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Walter Conrad Arensberg, Donald Evans, Mina Loy and Yvor Winters, Ann Arbor 1968. Virginia Kouidis: Mina Loy, American Modernist Poet, Baton Rouge 1980. Roger L. Conover (Hg.), The Last Lunar Baedeker, Highlands 1982. Elizabeth Arnold, Mina Loy and the Futurists, in: « Sagetrieb », VIII, 1-2, Spring/Fall 1989, S. 83-117. Elizabeth Arnold, Mina Loy and the Avant-Garde, Chicago 1990. Elizabeth Arnold (Hg.), Insel / Mina Loy, Santa Rosa 1991. Angela Krewani, Moderne und Weiblichkeit: amerikanische Schriftstellerinnen in Paris, Heidelberg 1993. Helen Jaskosi, Mina Loy: Outsider Artist, in: « Journal of modern literature », XVIII, 4, 1995, S. 350-368. Carlo Anceschi (Hg.), Poeti nel deserto: Basil Bunting e Mina Loy, Reggio Emilia 1994. Linda A. Kinnahan, Poetics of the feminine: authority and literary tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser, Cambridge 1994. Carolyn Burke, Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, New York 1996. Roger L. Conover (Hg.), The Lost Lunar Baedeker: poems of Mina Loy, New York 1996. Julie Schmid, Mina Loy's Futurist Theatre, in: « Performing Arts Journal », XVIII, 1, January 1996, S. 1-7, 8-17. Maeera Shreiber & Keith Tuma (Hg.), Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, Orono/London 1998. Marjorie Perloff, Poetry On & Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions, Evanston 1998. Jane Dowson, Women, modernism and British poetry 1910-1939: resisting femininity, Aldershot 2002. Antonella Francini, Mina Loy: poesie della luna, in: « Poesia », XV, 161, maggio 2002, S. 2-18. Antonella Francini (Hg.), Mina Loy. Per guida la luna: poesie e elegie d’amore, Florenz 2003. Cristianne Miller, Cultures of Modernism: Marianne Moore, Mina Loy & Else Lasker-Schüler: Gender and Literary Community in New York and Berlin , Ann Arbor 2005. Elisabeth Ann Frost, The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry, Iowa City 2005. Antonella Francini , Mina Loy’s ‘Islands in the Air’: Chapter I, in: « Italian Poetry Review », I, 2006, S. 221-235. Rachel Potter, Modernism and Democracy: Literary Culture 1900-1930, Oxford 2006. “Mina Loy’s Prose Drafts: The Unfinished Script of a Modernist”, in: Ambassadors: American Studies in A Changing World, hrsg. v. Massimo Bacigalupo & Gregroy Dowling, Rapallo 2006. Alex Goody, Modernist Articulations: A Cultural Study of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein, New York 2007. Patricia Rae, Modernism and Mourning, Lewisburg 2007. Tim Freeborn, The Satirical Vision of Mina Loy, Ottawa 2008. Matthew Hart, Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing, New York 2010. |