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Becoming modern : the life of Mina Loy
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Becoming modern : the life of Mina Loy

Author: Carolyn Burke
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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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.

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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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