YOU prefer to observe the past on which your eyes are already opened.

BUT the Future is only dark from outside.
Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.

FORGET that you live in houses, that you may live in yourself—

FOR the smallest people live in the greatest houses.

BUT the smallest person, potentially, is as great as the Universe.

WHAT can you know of expansion, who limit yourselves to compromise?

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LOOKING on the past you arrive at “Yes,” but before you can act upon it you have already arrived at “No.”

-from #AphorismsOnFuturism by #MinaLoy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966)

Loy was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.

Loy, a writer was known for her frank embrace of female sexuality and #FeministPolitics, joined the #Futurist movement in 1913, but she quickly encountered conflict regarding the movement’s perception of women. Her manifesto addresses those conflicts within a context of support for the movement’s forward-looking vision. Loy sees the female body as a site of resistance, and advocates affirmation and growth rather than destruction.

By 1915 Loy had left the movement, due to the #Misogyny and #Fascism she encountered there. Loy’s brief time with the futurists marks the greatest creative output of her career as a poet. “Aphorisms on Futurism” was first published in photographer #AlfredStieglitz’s magazine Camera Work in January of 1914

#Futurism #Poetry #Art #Literature #Feminism #Poets #Artists

Mina Loy, « Echo », tapuscrit avec correction au stylo, date inconnue, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

« La vie est une enquête vagabonde
un cri de défi

qui flagellent le sourd édifice
du mystère sans fin

extraite de la terre
perçant le ciel

elle méprise notre anxieux "Pourquoi"
pour mieux ricocher

comme un écho
seulement un écho

l’écho est pas de réponse »
(trad. Olivier Apert)

source : https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11699210

#minaloy

Mina Loy and C. Day Lewis might seem an unlikely pairing, but in ‘Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose’ and *From Feathers to Iron* they're both interested in origins, gestation, and uncontrollable cosmic forces.

I've written about them in "Wide Horizons", here:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193803

#MinaLoy #CDayLewis #LitSci

Happened to catch the #MinaLoy exhibit at Bowdoin Art Museum on Saturday. It’s her first solo exhibition since 1959 (which was curated by Marcel Duchamp). Utterly fascinating. I’ve know her mostly through her #poetry but her visual #art is varied and some of it groundbreaking. I really loved the assemblages and #collages in her later period—they prefigure Rauschenberg and directly inspired Joseph Cornell. Just wow. Up through mid September. The book is also stunning.

https://hyperallergic.com/814518/the-world-is-finally-ready-for-mina-loy/

📢 Cfp 'All About / Unfolding': Mapping Mina Loy Studies in 2023
📌 4 August

Thrilled to share our online Loy symposium CFP with Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde Digital Humanities project keynotes - Profs. Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, & Susan Rosenbaum

See loysymposium2023.wordpress.com

@moderniststudies @ModernandContemporaryArt #MinaLoy #AvantGarde #Dadaism #Surrealism #Futurism #Modernism

your long reality

Mina Loy, ‘An Aged Woman’ #poetry #minaloy

#Introduction - current PhD candidate in modern literature & art history at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

My thesis focuses on the painter-poet #MinaLoy - contextualising her spiritual explorations & their expression as a visionary aesthetic.

This leads me down paths relating to the #Avant-Garde, #Futurism, #Modernism, #Dadaism, #Surrealism, #GenderStudies, #Biography, #HistoryOfReligionAndScience, #Esotericism, #Occult.

@litstudies @academicchatter @academicsunite