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Reinterpreting the Dynamics Between the Surrealist Artist and the Muse in Mina Loy’s 'Insel'
Mina Loy’s Insel recounts the friendship between Mrs. Jones, an art dealer, and Insel, an idiosyncratic surrealist painter, in 1930s Paris, based on Loy’s friendship with the surrealist painter Richard Oelze. The novel is often compared to André Breton’s surr…