{"product_id":"becoming-modern-9781250796134","title":"Becoming Modern","description":"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 Mexico with the greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Modern, \u003c\/i\u003ebrings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism--and one woman's important contribution to it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Burke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLee Miller: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNo Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50495230476562,"sku":"9781250796134","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_91621084-3355-4ab5-8271-45fdf786100f.jpg?v=1730675800","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/becoming-modern-9781250796134","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}