Abstract
Mina Loy's poem ‘Brancusi's Golden Bird’ and Brancusi's photograph of his Golden Bird (1919) appear together in the 1922 issue of The Dial magazine, a literary and arts journal. Their interaction is the foundation of this study. The poem is concerned with a photograph of a sculpture and its formal and associative connotations. When the poem was published in 1922, the inclusion of image and text in magazines was becoming an important form of artistic interpretation. Layout design was fundamental to generating meaning in those journals. Ekphrastic theory and photographic history enrich an understanding of this interaction. Ultimately, the value of this synthesis is found in their similar, though distinctive, modernist approaches and their ultimate concern for the experience of the viewer.
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