From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 02:28:26 MST
Dear Extropes,
In the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome last weekend was an Alfred
Stieglitz photo exhibit, featuring his photos (not enough), early
black & white photos (many) from the origins of photography, and pieces
from his 'zine: "Camera Work". This small magazine featured artists,
writers, painters, photographers, sculptors, etc. of all kinds, with
insightful essays.
One of Stieglitz' features in his Camera Work magazine was Mina
Loy's: 'Aphorisms on Futurism', 45 (January 1914): 13-15. While I
was in the exhibit hall, I copied some of the aphorisms that I
thought most interesting, which I show below. Serafino found some
information about this piece and more info about her.
The full reference is here:
"Aphorisms on Futurism."
Camera Work, 45 (January 1914): 13-15.
Rpt. Camera Work: A Critical Anthology.
Ed. and Introd. Jonathan Green. New York:
Aperture, 1973. 276-7. Rpt. Last Lunar Baedeker, 272-275.
I had never heard these aphorisms before, and I had never heard
of Mina Loy before (even though she was spending time with the
most famous artists of that time).
She's a remarkable woman. Creative. Bold.
http://shc.stanford.edu/sed/Mina.Loy.html
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/loy/bio.htm
some of Mina Loy's "Aphorisms on Futurism":
* Die in the past. Live in the future.
* The Futurist can live a thousand years in one poem.
* Love the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.
* In pressing the material to derive its essence, matter becomes
defined.
* Forget that you live in houses, so that you may live in yourself.
* What can you know of expansion; those who limit yourselves to compromise?
* Love of others is appreciation of oneself.
* Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease
to be at the mercy of yourself.
* Time is the dispersion of intensiveness.
* The future is limitless- the past is a trail of insidious reactions.
* The future is only dark from the outside. Leap into it, and it
_explodes_ with Light.
* The smallest person is as great as the Universe.
* May your egotism be so gigantic that you compromise mankind in
your self-sympathy.
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"Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the
future of the human race." -- H. G. Wells
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