Becoming modern : the life of Mina Loy / Carolyn Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Carolyn.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loy, Mina.

Women poets, American.

Women poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Burke, Carolyn (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

ix, 493 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-474) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has the autograph of Carolyn Burke.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374109648

OCLC:

32464933