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Modernist Women Poets:
Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker
SPRING 2005 / SUSAN TICHY / THURSDAYS 7:20-10:00 / EAST BUILDING 134
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Loy: weeks 6-9
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week 8: Portraiture, Abstraction, & Collage
This week we will talk more specifically about abstraction in Loy’s poems. What kinds of abstraction does she create? Does abstraction represent for Loy, as Ellen Stauder argues, an “irreducible surplus” or "divine irritant” creating beauty and spiritual motion? We will also look at specific formal translations from the visual arts--including cubism, the line, abstract color and collage--and spend some time with Loy’s portraits.
We will also talk a little about the assemblages and trash art she created in her later years.
REQUIRED READING:
Lost Lunar Baedeker:
III: Corpses & Geniuses (Poems 1919-1930):
Read all the poems.
We will concentrate on: Apology of Genius, “The Starry Sky” of Wyndham
Lewis, Brancusi’s Golden Bird, Gertrude Stein, Lunar Baedeker, Joyce’s
Ulysses
IV: Compensations of Poverty (Poems 1942-1949):
Read all the poems.
We will concentrate on: On Third Avenue, Omen of Victory, Idiot Child
on a Fire Escape, Film-Face, Chiffon Velours, Hot Cross Bum, Photo After Pogrom
I: Futurism X Feminism: The Circle Squared (Poems 1914-1920):
Reread: Parturition, Three
Moments in Paris, Italian Pictures
Reading at the JC Reserve Desk:
Ellen Keck Sauder. "The Irreducible Surplus of Abstraction: Mina Loy on Brancusi & the Futurists." MLWP
(note:
only the subtitle of this essay appears in the book's table of
contents)
On Line Reading:
Kevin LaCamera & Jennifer Wolkowski. Modernism: Art Salons: Mina Loy’s Lunar Odyssey. http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/VSALM/mod/wolkowski/main.html
Take the art tour, which features
reproductions of some of Loy's art.
RECOMMENDED READING:
F.T. Marinetti. “Manifesto of the Futurist Painters.” http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/
Fifteen Futurist
manifestos appear on this site, The Futurist Home Page, edited by Kim Scarborough.
Janet Lyon & Elizabeth Majerus, eds. Mina Loy page of the Modern American Poetry Web site.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/loy.htm
Reproductions of
Loy’s art works, fewer pieces, but larger than on other sites.
