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...

The image on the right side is a box construction that Joseph Cornell made. It features a picture of Loy taken by Man Ray. It is from Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs (Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1998).