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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.

Artists --- Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, --- HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography

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"Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been discarded and recovered in established definitions of modernism. Exploring the collaborative auto/biographical writings of Djuna Barnes and the artist, poetic and Dada performer Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Caroline Knighton reveals how these very processes of discarding, recovery and re-use can open up new ways of understanding a distinctively female modernist artistic practice. Illustrated throughout with artworks, original letters and manuscript facsimiles, the book draws on new archival discoveries to place the feminist recovery of neglected female voices at the heart of our understanding of modernist and avant-garde literary culture."--

Modernism (Literature) --- Women authors --- Women poets --- Women artists --- History and criticism. --- Barnes, Djuna --- Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"In Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones gives us a history of New York Dada reinterpreted in relation to the life and works of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Jones enlarges our conception of New York Dada beyond the male avant-garde heroics of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia to include the rebellious body of the Baroness. If they practiced Dada, she lived it, with her unorthodox personal life, wild assemblage objects, radical poetry and prose, and the flamboyant self-displays by which she became her own work of art. Through this reinterpretation, Jones not only provides a revisionist history of an art movement but also suggests a new method of art history."--Jacket.

Dadaism --- Art, American --- Dadaïsme --- Art américain --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Gender identity in art --- Feminism and the arts --- kunst --- Verenigde Staten --- Duchamp Marcel --- 7.036.1/037 --- 7.071 VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN --- New York --- gender studies --- feminisme --- seksualiteit --- erotiek --- lichamelijkheid --- performance --- performances --- literatuur --- dadaïsme --- twintigste eeuw --- Von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa --- Arts and feminism --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Dada --- Tabu-Dadaism --- Arts, Modern --- History --- Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, --- Loringhoven, Elsa von Freytag-, --- Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa, --- Ploetz, Else Hildegard, --- Wereldoorlog I --- avant-garde --- Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von (barones) --- 20ste eeuw --- New York City --- dadaïsme. --- avant-garde. --- Wereldoorlog I. --- Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von (barones). --- 20ste eeuw. --- New York City. --- kunstgeschiedenis.

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This is a collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, 'the first American Dada'. Many of the poems are themselves art objects, decorated in red and green ink, adorned with sketches and diagrams.

Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, --- Loringhoven, Elsa von Freytag-, --- Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa, --- Ploetz, Else Hildegard, --- Von Freytag - Loringhoven, Elsa --- Art contemporain --- Performance --- POETRY --- Continental European. --- Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa