Baroness Elsa : gender, dada, and everyday modernity : a cultural biography / Irene Gammel
- Author
- Gammel, Irene, 1959-
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
- Edition
- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed., 2003.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- The Psychogenesis of a Dada personality -- "My Father's House" -- Sexual Modernities in Berlin and Munich -- Sexcapades in Berlin -- The New Woman and the Stefan George Circle -- Munich's Dionysian Avant-Garde in 1900 -- Felix Paul Greve: Elsa's Sex-Sun -- New York Dada -- Strip/Teasing the Bride of New York -- Living Dada with Phallus in Hand and Taillight on Bustle -- A Citizen of Terror in Wartime -- The Little Review and its Dada Fuse, 1918 to 1921 -- The Poetic Feud of William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and the Baroness -- A Farewell to New York -- Berlin and Paris Dada -- Berlin Exile -- Courting Djuna Barnes -- The Baroness's Last Dada Dance in Paris -- Afterword by Gisela Baronin Freytag v. Loringhoven.
- Summary
- The first biography of the enigmatic dadaist known as "the Baroness"--Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927) is considered by many to be the first American dadaist as well as the mother of dada. An innovator in poetic form and an early creator of junk sculpture, "the Baroness" was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances. Some thought her merely crazed, others thought her a genius. The editor Margaret Anderson called her "perhaps the only figure of our generation who deserves the epithet extraordinary." Yet despite her great notoriety and influence, until recently her story and work have been little known outside the circle of modernist scholars. In Baroness Elsa, Irene Gammel traces the extraordinary life and work of this daring woman, viewing her in the context of female dada and the historical battles fought by women in the early twentieth century. Striding through the streets of Berlin, Munich, New York, and Paris wearing such adornments as a tomato-soup can bra, teaspoon earrings, and black lipstick, the Baroness erased the boundaries between life and art, between the everyday and the outrageous, between the creative and the dangerous. Her art objects were precursors to dada objects of the teens and twenties, her sound and visual poetry were far more daring than those of the male modernists of her time, and her performances prefigured feminist body art and performance art by nearly half a century
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- ISBN
- 9780262273435 (electronic bk.)
0262273438 (electronic bk.) - Note
- Title from e-book title screen (viewed November 1, 2005).
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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