Synopses & Reviews
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 modernismand#151;and one woman's important contribution to it.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-474) and index.
About the Author
Carolyn Burke holds a Ph.D. in literature from Columbia University. A native of Australia, she now lives in Santa Cruz, California, and teaches in Sydney part of the year.