Becoming Modern

by Carolyn Burke

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125079613X
• ISBN13: 9781250796134
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"