"Surrealism on the Move: New York, 1937-1953" (Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde) (original) (raw)

Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde. Edited by Suzanne W. Churchill et al. Davidson College, 2019. https://mina-loy.com., 2019

Abstract

Susan Rosenbaum considers transformations in Loy’s relationship to Dada and Surrealism when she moved to New York City for the second time. This chapter does not approach Loy’s late work as a falling off from an earlier European “avant-garde” moment, but as an active working through of ideas and techniques Loy had absorbed from Dada and Surrealism, which she would continue to critique and transform during her years in New York. Loy’s struggles with aging and poverty coupled with her experience living near the Bowery and friendship with “American Surrealist” Joseph Cornell would inflect her poetry and visual art of this time with ethical vigor and spiritual reflection. This chapter considers Loy’s 1950’s collections — the publication of Lunar Baedeker and Time-Tables (1958) and the Bodley Gallery Exhibition of Loy’s Constructions (1959) — in the context of the post-1945 American avant-garde and its histories.

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