This cluster of web pages focuses on the work of the poet and artist Mina Loy (1882-1966), especially in the ways her poetic endeavors were shaped and defined by her work as a visual artist. Loy's verbal and visual productions were partially defined by the major art movements of the early decades of the twentieth century-including Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism-even as she helped to define those movements. Loy had a complex involvement with these movements and their key leaders, including her acceptance of some of their tenets, as well as her articulate critiques and rejection of many of their principles and refusal to be a member of any group. Her own artistic and literary productions were also influenced by her artistic and personal relationship with the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, the early proponent of "ready-made" artworks Marcel Duchamp, the painter Jules Pascin, and the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, most well known for his box constructions and collages. Loy's interactions with these artists and art movements place her at a valuable intersection of the verbal and visual arts.

This site is intended to provide primary and secondary materials that can help with further study of the mutually interrelated experiments present in modern art and literature. These web pages include primary and secondary sources about Loy's poetry and visual art, including a gallery with representations of her artwork. This gallery is the largest gathering of her artwork now in existence. It contains images from early in her career (some dated 1902) to some of her late constructions from the 50s. These web pages also contain a link to the online reproduction of Loy's first book of poems, Lunar Baedecker [sic], from 1923, as well as a gathering of some of Loy's earliest ekphrastic poems, together with reproductions of the visual images that those poems respond to. Furthermore, this site also contains web pages that introduce and discuss Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, as well as pages devoted to the work of Brancusi, Duchamp, Pascin, and Cornell.