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Mina Loy: Apology of Genius de Mary Ann Caws

Mina Loy: Apology of Genius

Autor Mary Ann Caws
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iul 2022
Featuring many rare images, an enlightening exploration of the life and work of avant-garde multihyphenate Mina Loy.
 
Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a poet, painter, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance, and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, feminism, fashion, and everything modern and modernist.
 
This new account by Mary Ann Caws explores Mina Loy’s exceptional life and features many rare images of Mina Loy and her husband, the Swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer, and provocateur Arthur Cravan—who disappeared without a trace in 1918.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789145540
ISBN-10: 1789145546
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 28 color plates, 26 halftones
Dimensiuni: 159 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books

Notă biografică

Mary Ann Caws is distinguished professor emerita of comparative literature, English, and French in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author of many books including The Modern Art Cookbook and Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism, both also published by Reaktion Books.

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"In Loy's late writings, the figure of the nomadic exile blends with, or supplants, that of the genius; her own life had been a series of temporary refuges, each one liable to collapse. Caws, toward the end of her biography, writes, 'It turns out to be of major importance for me, my writing and my living—that she went right on, exclusive in herself, reclusive in herself, being herself.' Loy kept inventing herself to the end: 'This excessive incognito/of a Bulbous stranger/only to be exorcised by death.'"

"Caws’s short critical biography embraces Loy as a marvel, an unclassifiable genius who made 'magnificently complex work' and led an 'out-of-the-ordinary life.' . . . Caws devotes a welcome chapter to her visual art, which is not well known."

"Loy emerges as a singular figure, and Caws's biography of this great woman defends Loy as one who 'went right on, exclusive in herself, reclusive in herself, being herself.' . . . It took Caws twenty-one years to write this book, perhaps because Loy's multiplicity makes her a difficult subject. Her singularity is many. Mina Loy was categorically her own figure and Caws's biography presents these assorted facets of Loy's life in a loose arrangement that encourages readers to go beyond the biography and meet, through their own discovery (perhaps recovery) of her works, this irresolvable woman."

"It’s refreshing to read something by someone who doesn’t lay claims to total detachment, and is prepared to perhaps stand open to criticism by being outspoken in her admiration for Loy and her work. . . . The book has notes, a short but useful bibliography, and is well-illustrated with photos and reproductions of art works. Also, and it’s a virtue in my opinion, it doesn’t need to extend beyond its 223 pages when making a convincing case for Mina Loy as a poet worth reviving and reading."

"Caws’ personal tone gives the book a lively quality that is appropriate to the dynamic nature of Loy’s life within the avant-garde."

"Much like its subject, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius runs on restlessness, fervor, and open-endedness. With it, Caws has gifted us yet another stirring assemblage that teaches and excites, this time blessedly dilating on a singularly complex, singularly wild figure at the heart of the modern and so much else."

"Like Caws’s other critical studies, her Mina Loy is startlingly original, personal, and wonderfully refreshing in its candor. Beautifully and copiously illustrated, this bio-critical overview gives us a genuinely new perspective on the exciting poetry, critical prose, and artworks of this great avant-garde artist. Loy’s central role in both the Futurist and Dada movements has never before been so persuasively argued. A real page-turner!"

“Reading Caws’s book today reminds me of the excitement I felt when I first encountered Mina Loy’s writing nearly fifty years ago. Mina Loy is not for everyone, I wrote at the time. She is an acquired habit. But if she gets into your system, you may become addicted. In fact you may not ever get over her, in which case this charismatic book will not help you. It will only make withdrawal more difficult.”