Shadow-box
By: Antonia Logue
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780802116475; 9780802137227
Subjects: Correspondence; Epistolary fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction
Description: 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.