Mina Loy: Apology of Genius

by Mary Ann Caws

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Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen, Colorado until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a painter, poet, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, Feminism, Fashion, and everything modern and modernist.
This new account by Mary Ann Caws explores Mina Loy's exceptional life, and features many rare images of Loy and her husband, the swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer and provocateur Arthur Cravan, who disappeared without trace in 1918.
  • ISBN13 9781789145540
  • Publish Date 11 April 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Reaktion Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English