Mina Loy
Mina Loy, Mina Gertrude Lowy actually (* December 27, 1882 in London, † September 25, 1966 in Aspen, Colorado) was an American artist, poet, Futurist, actress and designer lamp. She was one of the last modernists of the first generation, which reached posthumous recognition. Her poems have been admired by TS Eliot, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.
Early years
Mina Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in 1882 in London. She was the daughter of a Hungarian-Jewish father and an English mother. After leaving school, she began to study art, first in 1899 for two years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and 1901/ 02 in London, where the painter Augustus John was her teacher. Together with Stephen Haweis, she moved to Paris, where they both studied at the Académie Colarossi. The couple married on December 31, 1903, after which transformed Mina Loy in her last name.
Loy soon became a regular at Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant-garde artists and writers. She developed a lifelong friendship with stone. In 1905 Loy and Haweis moved to Florence, where they were increasingly separate ways until the marriage in 1913, finally broke apart. Loy joined in this time of the local immigrant community and the Futurists, with their leader Filippo Marinetti they had a relationship. It began at that time with what under the name Songs to Joannes to be known - a feat the modernist avant-garde love poetry. She began her poems in New York magazines to publish. She was a key figure in the group was formed around the magazine Others, which also includes Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore scored.
Loy and Arthur Cravan
Disillusioned by the forward movement of the Futurists to fascism and also going for a divorce, Loy went in 1916 to New York, where she began acting with the Provincetown Players. She quickly became a member of the bohemian Greenwich Village. Here she met the " poet - boxer 'Arthur Cravan, a self-proclaimed Dadaists and conscientious objectors. Cravan fled to Mexico; after Loy's divorce was complete, she followed him, and both were married in Mexico City.
Both lived in poverty, as she wrote years later. Finally, both decided (or were forced ) to leave the country. Cravan set sail and left Mexico in a small yacht, while Loy stood on the beach. He sailed over the horizon, and was never seen again. The narrative of this disappearance is highly anecdotal, as Loy 's biographer Carolyn Burke told.
Return to Europe
Loy came back to Europe to seek part to Cravan. She was not able to accept his death. In 1920 she moved back to New York, still looking. She returned here to her old life in Greenwich Village back, began looking to play back and share with their fellow poets. In 1923 she went to Paris again and launched with the support of Peggy Guggenheim, a company that designed and manufactured lampshades, as art objects made of glass, paper cuts and painted floral arrangements. That same year she appeared by Robert McAlmon misplaced first book Lunar Baedeker. They revived their old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein again. She has published since 1923 continue their poems and put their images. In 1936, she left Europe.
Later years and works
Over the next twenty years, Loy was back in New York and lived for a time with her daughter together in Manhattan. Then she went to the Bowery, where she developed an interest for the alcoholics and homeless people living there ( the so-called Bowery Bums ) and poems written about them and sculptures ( objets trouvées ) created on this topic. Then she went to Colorado to live with her daughters. In 1946 she became an American citizen. In 1951 she presented her sculptures made in New York. Their second and last book, Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables, published in 1958. In Colorado, she led her work as a poet and trash sculpture artist until her death at the age of 83 years on. She succumbed to pneumonia.