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Mina Loy

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

December 27, 1882

Died

September 25, 1966

Genre

Arts & Photography, Poetry

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Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London, England. On leaving school, she studied painting, first in Munich for two years and then in London, where one of her teachers was Augustus John. She moved to Paris, France with Stephen Haweis who studied with her at the Académie Colarossi. The couple married in 1903. She first used the name Loy in 1904, when she exhibited six watercolor paintings at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Loy soon became a regular in the artistic community at Gertrude Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant garde artists and writers of the day. She and Stein were to remain lifelong friends.

In 1907, Loy and Haweis moved to Florence, Italy where they lived more or less separate lives, becoming estranged. Loy mixe ...more

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	The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems by Mina Loy, Roger L. Conover (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 1,898 ratings — published 1923 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insel 3.64 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories and Essays of Mina Loy by Mina Loy, Sara Crangle (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feminist Manifesto 3.40 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1914 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other Verses by Mina Loy, Dick Whyte (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mina Loy. Futurismo Dadá Surrealismo 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autobiography of Mina Loy: Anglo-mongrels and the Rose and Colossus 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sange til Joannes by Mina Loy, Pia Juul (Translator), Per Kirkeby (Painting) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manifeste féministe 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy by Mina Loy, Karla Kelsey (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

tags: immensity, intensity, poems, poetry, space, time

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“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.

MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

tags: compassion, ego, egotism, empathy, love, others, self, self-respect, sympathy

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“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

tags: ideas, music, poems, poetry, words

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