Title
Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Draws from Hemingway's significant contributions (via A Moveable Feast) to the social idea of the "starving artist" as a way of examining the "modernist distaste for culinary art" and other threads of philosophy and aesthetics. Culminates in a discussion of Mina Loy's posthumous novel Insel (1991), which introduces a rarely seen "feminist parable of the making of a female starving artist."
Published in
Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
Date
2019
Pages
83-98
COinS
Citation
Moody, Alys. "Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist." In Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture, edited by Derek Gladwin, 83-98. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2019.