Mina Loy: Apology of Genius

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Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe and, finally, Aspen, Colorado, where 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 LoyÕs exceptional life, and features many rare images of Loy and her husband, the Swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer and provocateur Arthur Cravan, who disappeared without trace in 1918. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Why Mina Loy Now? 1. London and Munich, 1882–1900 2. ‘Parturition’: Paris, Florence, New York, 1900–1916 Interval: Futurism 3. Diversions, 1914–53 4. New York and the Arensberg Circle Interval: Arthur Cravan 5. ‘The Widow’s Jazz’: Paris Again 6. Insel, 1933–6 Interval: Mina Loy the Artist 7. New York Again, 1936–53 8. Aspen, 1953–66 9. Always Ample Space References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index of works by Mina Loy General Index