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Baroness Elsa

Author : Irene Gammel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262572156
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Baroness Elsa written by Irene Gammel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Irrational Modernism

Author : Amelia Jones
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Irrational Modernism written by Amelia Jones and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist history of New York Dada, with appearances by Baroness Elsa as the embodiment of irrational modernism.

The Baroness

Author : Hannah Rothschild
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307961990
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Baroness written by Hannah Rothschild and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father’s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family had, in only five generations, risen from the ghetto in Frankfurt to stately homes in England. As a child, Nica took her daily walks, dressed in white, with her two sisters and governess around the parkland of the vast house at Tring, Hertfordshire, among kangaroos, giant tortoises, emus and zebras, all part of the exotic menagerie collected by her uncle Walter. As a debutante, she was taught to fly by a saxophonist and introduced to jazz by her brother Victor; she married Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, settled in a château in France and had five children. When World War II broke out, Nica and her five children narrowly escaped back to England, but soon after, she set out to find her husband who was fighting with the Free French Army in Africa, where she helped the war effort by being a decoder, a driver and organizing supplies and equipment. In the early 1950s Nica heard “’Round Midnight” by the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and, as if under a powerful spell, abandoned her marriage and moved to New York to find him. She devoted herself to helping Monk and other musicians: she bailed them out of jail, paid their bills, took them to the hospital, even drove them to their gigs, and her convertible Bentley could always be seen parked outside downtown clubs or up in Harlem. Charlie Parker would notoriously die in her apartment in the Stanhope Hotel. But it was Monk who was the love of her life and whom she cared for until his death in 1982. Hannah Rothschild has drawn on archival material and her own interviews in this quest to find out who her great-aunt really was and how she fit into a family that, although passionate about music and entomology, was reactionary in always favoring men over women. Part musical odyssey, part love story, The Baroness is a fascinating portrait of a modern figure ahead of her time who dared to live as she wanted, finally, at the very center of New York’s jazz scene.

Body Sweats

Author : Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262302888
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Body Sweats written by Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, “the first American Dada.” As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her wake a ripple that is becoming a rip—one hundred years after she exploded onto the New York art scene. As an agent provocateur within New York's modernist revolution, “the first American Dada” not only dressed and behaved with purposeful outrageousness, but she set an example that went well beyond the eccentric divas of the twenty-first century, including her conceptual descendant, Lady Gaga. Her delirious verse flabbergasted New Yorkers as much as her flamboyant persona. As a poet, she was profane and playfully obscene, imagining a farting God, and transforming her contemporary Marcel Duchamp into M'ars (my arse). With its ragged edges and atonal rhythms, her poetry echoes the noise of the metropolis itself. Her love poetry muses graphically on ejaculation, orgasm, and oral sex. When she tired of existing words, she created new ones: “phalluspistol,” “spinsterlollipop,” “kissambushed.” The Baroness's rebellious, highly sexed howls prefigured the Beats; her intensity and psychological complexity anticipates the poetic utterances of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Published more than a century after her arrival in New York, Body Sweats is the first major collection of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's poems in English. The Baroness's biographer Irene Gammel and coeditor Suzanne Zelazo have assembled 150 poems, most of them never before published. Many of the poems are themselves art objects, decorated in red and green ink, adorned with sketches and diagrams, presented with the same visceral immediacy they had when they were composed.

Intimate Enemies

Author : Christina Vella
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149659
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Enemies written by Christina Vella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-01-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795, Micaela Almonester was married into misery in France sixteen years later. Against a richly woven historical background of two centuries and two vivid societies. Christina Vella unfolds the amazing true account of this resilient woman's life - and the three men who most affected its course: her father, Andres, an illustrious New Orleans builder in whose footsteps she eventually followed with great distinction; her father-in-law, Xavier, who for more than twenty years tried to destroy her marriage and seize control of her fortune, eventually shooting Mica.

Moura

Author : Nina Berberova
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171370
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Moura written by Nina Berberova and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroness Maria Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Benckendorff Budberg hailed from the Russian aristocracy and lived in the lap of luxury—until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Thereafter her existence was a story of connivance and stratagem, a succession of unlikely twists and turns. Intimately involved in the mysterious Lockhart affair, a conspiracy which almost brought down the fledgling Soviet state, mistress to Maxim Gorky and then to H.G. Wells, Moura was a woman of enormous energy, intelligence, and charm whose deepest passion was undoubtedly the mythologization of her own life. Recognized as one of the great masters of Russian twentieth-century fiction, Nina Berberova here proves again that she is the unsurpassed chronicler of the lives of Soviet émigrés. In Moura Budberg, a woman who shrouded the facts of her life in fiction, Berberova finds the ideal material from which to craft a triumph of literary portraiture, a book as engaging and as full of life and incident as any one of her celebrated novels.

The Life & Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild

Author : Laura S. Schor
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478852
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Life & Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild written by Laura S. Schor and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty Rothschild grew up in Frankfurt nurtured in Jewish tradition and tutored in French, music, and drawing. At nineteen, she married her uncle James and moved to Paris where she presided over a salon famous for its opulence and the brilliance of its guests. Betty was a friend of Queen Marie-Amelie, the pupil of Chopin, and was painted by Ingres. She prepared her five children to assume leading roles in French society while simultaneously serving the Jewish community. She devoted her vast energy to philanthropic activities with a particular emphasis on the needs of young Jewish women.

The Baroness

Author : Guy De Maupassant
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baroness written by Guy De Maupassant and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the dark and intense narrative of Guy De Maupassant's "The Baroness." This short story delves into the life of a woman of noble birth who grapples with the complexities of power, wealth, and social status. De Maupassant examines themes of morality, ambition, and the human cost of maintaining appearances in a rigidly structured society. De Maupassant masterfully portrays the psychological depth of the Baroness, offering a story that is both unsettling and thought-provoking. His exploration of the character's inner turmoil provides a compelling look at the dark side of privilege and the societal pressures that accompany it. "The Baroness" is a powerful and gripping story, perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven narratives and the masterful prose of one of France's literary greats.

Holy Skirts

Author : Rene Steinke
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061734519
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Holy Skirts written by Rene Steinke and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Bar-oness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- poet, artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and unrepentant troublemaker. When she wasn't stalking the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a brassiere made from tomato cans, she was enthusiastically declaiming her poems to sailors in beer halls or posing nude for Man Ray or Marcel Duchamp. In an era of brutal war, technological innovation, and cataclysmic change, the Baroness had resolved to create her own destiny -- taking the center of the Dadaist circle, breaking every bond of female propriety . . . and transforming herself into a living, breathing work of art.

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: Her Life, Art and Postion in New York Dada

Author : Anne Mette
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640399293
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: Her Life, Art and Postion in New York Dada written by Anne Mette and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Anglistik), course: Proseminar "Start Spreading the News": New York and Early Modernism, language: English, abstract: Never conventional, never following the rules of any given norm, but in contrast, making ironic statements on society, turning “normal” items, traditions or circumstances into absurdity. This was what Dada artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and other practitioners were aiming at. A well-remembered incident is the scandal that introduced the concept of Dadaism into American Art. Duchamp brought a urinal to the first exhibition of the Society of Independent artists on 10 April 1917. He did not change anything, but moved it from its original place, called it “Fountain” and signed it with the pseudonym “R. Mutt”. Only four days before the exhibition took place, president Woodrow Wilson had declared war on Germany. As Michael R. Taylor writes in his essay “New York Dada”, this event “may have played a role in Duchamp’s decision to enter his scandalous submission”. The New York Dada artists wanted to show their neglect of the cruel war in Europe and with their art challenged ideas about art which were commonly accepted. They produced “paintings, mixed-media assemblages, sculptures, found objects, readymades, photography, and performances” (Taylor, 277). With the photomontage, the film or a photography the author of a work could not be guessed by looking at the work of art (Taylor, 277), the importance of the work was rather the message behind it. The message to a society which had absurd traditions, absurd machineries whith which people killed each other and a society that had cultural prejudices, which again were absurd. Having this common interest the New York Dada artists soon came together in the appartment of Louise and Walter Arensberg in 33 West 67th Street which served for their meetings from 1915 to 1921. “It was while surrounded by this stunning array of paintings and sculpture that the group members hotly debated such topics as art, literature, sex, politics, and psychoanalysis, while others preferred to play chess, drink champagne, or dance the night away in their bare feet.” (Taylor, 278).

Three Wishes

Author : Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Publisher : Abrams Image
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Wishes written by Pannonica de Koenigswarter and published by Abrams Image. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter befriended many of jazz greats of the thriving New York jazz scene in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the 1960s, she began a project: She asked 300 jazz musicians what their three wishes in life were. Their responses are collected in this volume, available in English for the first time, and are accompanied by hundreds of candid photographs.--From cover, p. [4].

The Illuminati Ball

Author : Cynthia von Buhler
Publisher : Titan Comics
ISBN 13 : 1787733696
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Illuminati Ball written by Cynthia von Buhler and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you received an invitation to attend a mysterious masked ball held by a secret organization of the rich and powerful, would you accept? Meet the five candidates who do: the scientist, the singer, the chef, the attorney, and the financier. They crave power, love, money, respect, fame – that which eludes them. Their enigmatic host, known only as Pig King, craves something more basic: salvation for his kind. But the Illuminati Ball requires a sacrifice… “I was seduced by Cynthia’s art. She is a wonder.” – Neil Gaiman “Creative genius.” – Forbes

ArtCurious

Author : Jennifer Dasal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525506403
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book ArtCurious written by Jennifer Dasal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wildly entertaining and surprisingly educational dive into art history as you've never seen it before, from the host of the beloved ArtCurious podcast We're all familiar with the works of Claude Monet, thanks in no small part to the ubiquitous reproductions of his water lilies on umbrellas, handbags, scarves, and dorm-room posters. But did you also know that Monet and his cohort were trailblazing rebels whose works were originally deemed unbelievably ugly and vulgar? And while you probably know the tale of Vincent van Gogh's suicide, you may not be aware that there's pretty compelling evidence that the artist didn't die by his own hand but was accidentally killed--or even murdered. Or how about the fact that one of Andy Warhol's most enduring legacies involves Caroline Kennedy's moldy birthday cake and a collection of toenail clippings? ArtCurious is a colorful look at the world of art history, revealing some of the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating stories behind the world's great artists and masterpieces. Through these and other incredible, weird, and wonderful tales, ArtCurious presents an engaging look at why art history is, and continues to be, a riveting and relevant world to explore.

Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt's Fountain

Author : Stefan Banz
Publisher : Les presses du réel
ISBN 13 : 237896188X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)

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Download or read book Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt's Fountain written by Stefan Banz and published by Les presses du réel. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Banz rassemble des preuves et des documents jusqu'alors inconnus sur l'émergence, la disparition et la réception du célèbre readymade de Marcel Duchamp, Fontaine, et offre une perspective nouvelle sur cette œuvre qui apparaît comme la plus importante du XXe siècle. Stefan Banz examine en détail les cinq différentes répliques de Fountain réalisées en 1918, 1938, 1950, 1963 et 1964. Cette œuvre questionne la question de l'auteur et elle est posée pour la première fois dans l'histoire par des moyens artistiques. On découvre dans son étude que l'urinoir des deux photographies de Roché de 1918 n'est pas le même modèle que celui de la célèbre photographie de Stieglitz de 1917 : l'urinoir des photographies de Roché peut être clairement identifié à un modèle commercial, tandis que celui de la photographie de Stieglitz ne peut être identifié à aucun modèle industriel. Dans ce contexte, l'auteur propose également une nouvelle théorie sur l'origine réelle de cet urinoir qui est aujourd'hui considéré comme le célèbre « original » disparu de Fountain. On y trouve aussi des indices sur la raison pour laquelle Duchamp a signé cette œuvre avec le pseudonyme R. Mutt. Les sources et les documents de cet ouvrage prouvent aussi que la proposition d'Irene Gammel, de Glyn Thompson et surtout de Siri Hustvedt concernant l'implication de La Baronne von Freytag-Loringhoven dans la conception de Fountain est plus qu'improbable. Curieusement c'est Francis Naumann, le plus célèbre spécialiste américain de Duchamp, qui s'est involontairement trouvé à la base de cette fausse nouvelle, en essayant, en 1994, d'améliorer le travail artistique de la Baronne dans son célèbre livre New York Dada 1915-23 (également par intérêt personnel, car il est aussi marchand d'art et possédait de nombreuses œuvres de la Baronne). Il lui a attribué par exemple, comme co-autrice, le Readymade God de Morton Schamberg de 1917 (aujourd'hui au Philadelphia Museum of Art), qui représente en quelque sorte une réaction à Fountain. Quand Irene Gammel (qui a écrit une monographie sur la La Baronne von Freytag-Loringhoven) a lu ce texte en 2001, elle a poussé l'allégation jusqu'à à prétendre (sans avoir de preuve) que la Baronne pourrait aussi être l'auteur de Fountain de Duchamp. Et l'idée fait son chemin, reprise entre autres par la femme d'une superstar (Paul Auster), et la fausse nouvelle se répand sur Internet, appuyée par la vague de #metoo.

A Guide to New York's Fetish Underground

Author : Claudia Varrin
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806523781
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to New York's Fetish Underground written by Claudia Varrin and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diva Claudia guides both the aspiring and established sensualists through New York City's complex Fetish underground. Detailed here are the hottest and coolest places in New YOrk: fetish shops and boutiques; toy stores; clubs, parties and yearly events; designers' workshops; eateries; and much more. Included are names, addresses, fee requirements and services offered by these sometimes hard-to-find establishments. From tiaras to toe-sucking, lingerie to latex, and more, Claudia describes and rates them all acording to her unique Stiletto System. Includes local maps.

Baroness Elsa

Author : Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887508974
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Baroness Elsa written by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What We Owe Each Other

Author : Minouche Shafik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069120764X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book What We Owe Each Other written by Minouche Shafik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.