Search results
Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.
Mina Loy, poet and painter, was a charter member of the generation that—beginning in 1912 with the founding of Poetry magazine—launched the modernist revolution in poetry in the United States. Loy was too radical for Poetry's editor Harriet Monroe, who published her poetry only in a review article,…
Mina Loy (born Dec. 27, 1882, London, Eng.—died Sept. 25, 1966, Aspen, Colo., U.S.) was a modernist poet whose strongly feminist work portrayed unflinchingly the intimate aspects of female sexuality and emotional life. Loy began studying art in 1897 at St. John’s Wood School in London.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
People also ask
When did Mina Loy die?
What awards did Mina Loy win?
Where can I find Mina Loy papers?
Was Mina Loy able to understand without commas?
Jun 6, 2023 · Mina Loy (1882-1966) was an innovative Modernist poet and writer in the inter-war years. Although she trained as an artist, her art is much less well-known, a condition that is bound up with...
Born in London in 1882, Mina Loy has been labelled as a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist, conceptualist, modernist, and post-modernist. Known for both her poetry and visual art, she died in Colorado in 1966.
Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde is the proud recipient of three scholarly prizes: Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners (2023) Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographic, or Archival Scholarship (2022)
Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy) London, 1882–Aspen, Colo., 1966. Mina Loy was an important poet and artist of transatlantic modernism, though she has largely been left out of canonical narratives around the many movements in which she participated, namely Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism.
