Jade French

Bio

Jade Elizabeth French is a postdoctoral researcher at Loughborough University. She was previously a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded project ‘Reimagining the Future in Older Age’ at the University of Stirling. Her work explores the poetics of ageing in modernist and mid-century texts and visual culture. Her most recent work to date on these topics has been published in Women: A Cultural Review and Feminist Modernist Studies.

Contributions

Mina Loy’s Shifting Oral History: Commemorations by an Artist in Later Life

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In 1957, Johnathan Williams took a photograph of Mina Loy staring straight into the camera, chin lifted, wearing a dusky blue tunic to contrast against the earthy wall behind her (fig. 1). She looks every inch the artist, trimmed in pink beads and a high collar. The gaze of the poet is strikingly emphasized, as Loy looks down the lens in a potential position of power. However, this portrait didn’t quite live up to Loy’s expectations. Harriet Monroe had once described Loy as “beauty ever-young”...

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