Mina Loy - Apology of Genius

Featuring many rare images, an enlightening exploration of the life and work of avant-garde multihyphenate Mina Loy.

Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a poet, painter, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance, and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, feminism, fashion, and everything modern and modernist.

This new account by Mary Ann Caws explores Mina Loy's exceptional life and features many rare images of Mina Loy and her husband, the Swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer, and provocateur Arthur Cravan--who disappeared without a trace in 1918.

About the author

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, English and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an Officer in the Palmes Académiques, a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent publications include Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism (2019) and Mina Loy: Apology of Genius (2022), both published by Reaktion.

Summary

A biography of the flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde Mina Loy.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Ann Caws, Caws Mary Ann
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781789145540
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-554-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Biography: arts & entertainment, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: writers, Biography: arts and entertainment, Literary studies: poetry and poets