Becoming modern
the life of Mina Loy
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1996 - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
123,250 words, Guess
Page Count
493 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL781214M
- ISBN-100374109648
- OCLC Control Number32464933
- OCLC Control Numberbecomingmodernli00burk_0
- Library of Congress Control Number95013118
and 2 more
- Goodreads1621031
- LibraryThing223891
Classifications
- DDC811/.52
- LCCPS3523.O975 Z58 1996
Description
The poet and visual artist Mina Loy (1882-1966) has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism - in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with her greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography brings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism - and one woman's important contribution to it.
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