Baroness Elsa

Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography

Irene Gammel (Ryerson University)

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MIT Press
29 August 2003

The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: general; Gender studies: women

Series: The MIT Press

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.

By: Irene Gammel (Ryerson University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.220kg
ISBN: 9780262572156
ISBN 10: 026257215X
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 562
Publication Date: 29 August 2003
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Irene Gammel is Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto, where she directs the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. She is the author of Baroness Elsa- Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity (MIT Press).

Reviews for Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity—A Cultural Biography

Irene Gammel's Baroness Elsa mounts an enthusiastic case for her as one of the great unsung modernists. —Village Voice The Baroness could not have asked for a more thoughtful and engaged monument than Gammel's book. —The New York Times Book Review