Becoming modern
the life of Mina Loy
by 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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American Poets, Biography, Modernism (Literature), American Women poets, Loy, Mina., Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography., Modernism (Literature) -- United States., Women poets, Poets, biography, Loy, mina, 1882-1966, BiographiePeople
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Becoming modern: the life of Mina Loy
1997, University of California Press
in English
0520210891 9780520210899
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Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
1996, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English
0374709548 9780374709549
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Becoming modern: the life of Mina Loy
1996, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-474) and index.
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