Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Softcover. Gray and off-white illustrated wraps with black lettering, ix, 493 pp., a few bw illustrations. VG (minimal shelf wear and mild age toning along textblock). Item #180935
"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." - publisher's description.
OCLC: 36566122
Price: $30.00