Cover Image

Shadow-box /

Show other versions (2)

The story of 1910s painter Mina Loy, onetime lover of Henri Matisse, and her doomed romance with boxer and art critic Arthur Cravan. It is told through correspondence between Loy and Cravan's friend, black boxing champ Jack Johnson. A look at the world of avant-garde art by an Irish writer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Logue, Antonia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, [1999]
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Cravan, Arthur, > 1887-1920? > Fiction.
Johnson, Jack, > 1878-1946 > Correspondence > Fiction.
Loy, Mina > Correspondence > Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Historical fiction.
Description
Summary:The story of 1910s painter Mina Loy, onetime lover of Henri Matisse, and her doomed romance with boxer and art critic Arthur Cravan. It is told through correspondence between Loy and Cravan's friend, black boxing champ Jack Johnson. A look at the world of avant-garde art by an Irish writer.
Physical Description:308 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0802116477
9780802116475
0802137229 (pbk.)
9780802137227 (pbk.)