![]() ![]() ![]() In Gammel's biography,the Baroness emerges as a truly groundbreaking force. Yearning to teach young America the lessons of modernity, the middle-aged Baroness was the magnetic centre of a Euro/American force field: the living spark plug that propelled America into modernity.Īs a language and performance artist, I have the highest respect for the early avant-garde and for dada artists. Sensual and organic, her art loudly protested Marcel Duchamp's aesthetics of indifference and was distinctively different from the machine objects of male dadaists. Caustic and vitriolic, the German war widow, poet, sculptor, and model literally embodied dada in New York (from 1913-1923): stunning her viewers with costumes made of mass-produced items like teaspoons, vegetables, and battery taillights or sporting a bra made of tomato cans – which she brilliantly declared to be art – all decades before Andy Warhol. ![]() Nude, her head shaved and shellacked red, the woman known as the Baroness flamboyantly flashed her body in the offices of The Little Review, the era's most vanguard (and most feminist) magazine. Village Voice: Baroness Elsa selected in the 25 Favorite Books of 2002 Baroness Elsa is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927). Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity, A Cultural Biography ![]()
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