Becoming Modern

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 M...