Ornament for Serious Purpose: Mina Loy and Gaudy Consumer Culture
Mina Loy’s work explores the gaudiness of consumer culture in its spectacle, extravagance and underlying falsity. “Giovanni Franchi,” “Three Moments in Paris” and “Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots” question the perceptive powers and autonomy of Baudelaire’s flâneur when applied particularly to the m...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14100 |