Mina Loy

Mina Loy arrived in New York in 1916, preceded by her reputation as a writer of scandalous poetry and alarming Futurist polemics.

The First Lady Of Futurism Helen Carr 2011

Biographical Information: A modernist poet, painter, playwright, actress, and designer, Mina Loy was born in 1882.

Personal Information for Mina Loy Jewish Women's Archive 2010

Scalapino approached the novel as Mina Loy approached poetry.

"at 'night' any night is can't" 2010

Biographical Information: A modernist poet, painter, playwright, actress, and designer, Mina Loy was born in 1882.

Personal Information for Mina Loy 2010

I told her that Mina Loy wrote a poem about sex with him, or with one of the other Futurists, in which she compared Cupid to a pig “rooting erotic garbage.”

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Mina Loy, for example—that brilliant strange juxtaposer.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

The Dada women -- Baroness Elsa, Beatrice Wood, Katherine Dreier and Mina Loy -- appear to have been more raucous, more erotic, more directly concerned with the body than the male artists.

Barbara Probst Solomon: Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention 2009

And out of these two forces, Marinetti and Mina Loy, was begotten a young bully who talked loudly and sneered in public.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

In a sketchy watercolor Beatrice Wood deliberately records the night (she was the lover of both Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roch, the author of the novel Jules and Jim and probably the model for the temptress Jeanne Moreau made famous in the film based on it), she, Charles Demuth, Mina Loy and Duchamp had a foursome in Duchamp's bed after a bohemian ball.

Barbara Probst Solomon: Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention 2009

She also gave money to artist Mina Loy to open a shop selling lamps.

Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009