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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Mina Loy; Mina Loy |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carolyn Burke |
| ISBN: | 0374109648 9780374109646 |
| OCLC Number: | 32464933 |
| Description: | ix, 493 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Carolyn Burke. |
Abstract:
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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