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 restless and much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism, where her friends and lovers included Gertrude Stein, Marinetti, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Djuna Barnes, the poet-boxer Arthur Cravan, and 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.
- ISBN10 0520210891
- ISBN13 9780520210899
- Publish Date 14 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 January 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 503
- Language English