Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy

The poet and visual artist Mina Loy 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 the greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography, Becoming Modern, 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.

Author: Carolyn Burke
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/12/2021
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9781250796134
ISBN10: 125079613X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

About the Author
Carolyn Burke is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy; Lee Miller: A Life; and No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf.

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