Altered Observation of Modern Eyes
Mina Loy's Collages, and Multisensual Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4364660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Zelazo (Toronto Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-73 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174589309x388564 |
| OpenAlex | W2023321885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article traces the emergence of a multisensual aesthetic in the works of modernist avant-garde artist and poet Mina Loy. Loy's creative efforts were heterogeneous, spanning multiple media: a poet and painter, she was also a designer, actor and inventor. Seeking to instantiate herself in a cultural climate which tended to objectify the female body, Loy's multisensual art aimed to make the viewer/listener/reader sense as she did, and, in so doing, made important advances in the cultural configuration of women as whole, complex beings worthy of intellectual, physical, artistic and spiritual presence in the world.Loy's assemblage art of the 1950s is shown to be a radical attempt to push the medium of collage into a more complex dimensionality in an effort to represent emerging understandings of perception and consciousness, positioning her as a major contributor to a defining art form of modernism. Bolstered by an appreciation of her own body as sensually charged and relational, Loy ascertained the simultaneity of present absence, connectivity and juxtaposition characterizing collage. This article articulates how, by troubling normative conceptions of dimensionality Loy's assemblages underscore the material and textual aspects of language explored in her collage-inflected poetry.KEYWORDS: avant-gardefeminismpoetics
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Literature · Modernism (music · Normative · Painting · Poetry · Visual arts · French Literature and Poetry · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |