Becoming Modern
Burke, Carolyn 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-p...