{"product_id":"mina-loy-9780691239842","title":"Mina Loy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eMina Loy\u003c\/i\u003e] gives a crucial account of Loy’s varied life and art, and also shines a light on other aspects of her multifaceted creative output, including her work as a writer, poet, playwright, inventor, and fashion and industrial designer. . . . This book provides an essential foundation for future scholarship on this fascinating and enigmatic artist.\"\u003cb\u003e---Lauren Moya Ford, \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Loy’s repute as a writer (poet, satirist, polemicist, critic, feminist), and the international scholarship around it, underpins how the visual works are here brought to public attention. The contributors approach the task discursively: Lauterbach considering Loy’s engagement with truth and beauty, Ades exploring the trajectory from Dada to the late constructions, and Conover writing more self-reflexively as a result of his experience of 50 years studying and editing Loy’s work. This is a noble endeavour.\"\u003cb\u003e---Matthew Gale, \u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eMina Loy\u003c\/i\u003e] significantly restores [the artist] to the center of international 20th century Modernism. . . . [The] catalog allow[s] both a historical and contemporary view of Loy, analyzing her literary and artistic careers and works historically through her archive, and also in light of an expansive current concept of artistic production. The catalog’s contributors . . . look back and forth between word and image, knitting back together the different parts of her life—social, literary, artistic, and entrepreneurial—that have formerly separated Loy’s accomplishments and obscured her art historical importance.\"\u003cb\u003e---Amy Rahn, \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] fascinating exhibition catalog.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jorge S. Arango, \u003ci\u003ePortland Press Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Loy has long been recognized for her poetry (among poets, anyway), yet gradually, recognition of her multi-faceted artistic practice has increased—and with \u003ci\u003eMina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable\u003c\/i\u003e . . . it is irrevocably clearer than ever.\"\u003cb\u003e---Patrick James Dunagan, \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403923857751,"sku":"9780691239842","price":35.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691239842.jpg?v=1730484899","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mina-loy-9780691239842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}