{"id":2993,"date":"2017-09-05T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2017-09-06T02:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:07:14","slug":"mina-loy-futurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/09\/05\/mina-loy-futurism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mina Loy & Futurism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FuturistHere’s a link to my Powerpoint Presentation, “Looking Like a Futurist Poster: Mina Loy & Futurism”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My title, “Looking like a Futurist Poster,” comes from a letter by Neith Boyce (I think), who used the phrase to describe Loy as she entered a room. I want to recuperate the phrase from its snarky implication that Loy was a poster girl for Futurism. First, Futurist posters avoided objectifying the female body, decrying the nude as a “passeiste” celebration of feminine softness and beauty. So if Loy looked LIKE a Futurist poster, then she was fashioning herself in resistance to the image of a pretty poster girl. Furthermore, if we shift the emphasis to the verb, “LOOKING like a Futurist poster,” then Loy assumes the gaze, looking back at us, defying our habits of seeing and reading, and challenging us to LOOK in new ways.<\/p>\n

Check out this handout for comparing Loy’s “Effectual Marriage” as it appeared in the\u00a0Others<\/em> anthology of 1917 and in Ezra Pound’s retitled, excerpted, and edited version in 1920:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a link to my Powerpoint Presentation, “Looking Like a Futurist Poster: Mina Loy & Futurism”. My title, “Looking like a Futurist Poster,” comes from a letter by Neith Boyce (I think), who used the phrase to describe… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-dr-chill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/files\/2017\/09\/4e24ef208e613b6f5790bea4de77e08f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}