Curious Disciplines

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 Loys critical interrogation of Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, and Degenerate artisthood, and exploring her poetic legacies today, Curious Disciplines reveals Loys importance in an entirely novel way. Examining the primary texts produced by those movements themselvestheir manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and speechesSarah Hayden uses close readings of Loys poetry, prose, polemics, and unpublished writings to trace her response to how these movements wrote themselves, collectively, into being.