#baroness elsa von freytag loringhoven

[hairtusk]

God

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

(1917)

#I've been thinking about this sculpture a lot this week #visual art #dadaism #avant garde #women's art #baroness elsa von freytag loringhoven

[walls-to-the-ball]

Pipe-intestine passage way.

God (1917), by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Livingston Schamberg, gelatin silver print.

#Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven #intestine

[bartyfartyfinch]

#Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

Colona Venus head photocopy

Bartolomeo Veneto: Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress [sleeves]

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: La paix ramenant l'abondance [cape]

Unknown black woman torso

Acropolis Front part of a Horse, 490 BC

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: God (farting), 1917

JANINGE Chair IKEA yellow

Narcissus vintage illustration

Cindy Ray tattooed leg

Giuseppe Zanotti, hi heel pumps

Ergy Landau: Two Mongolian children, 1954 [wheel]

John Baldessari: "There Isn't Time" phrase

#eucanthos #collage #Colona Venus #run #Bartolomeo Veneto #horse #hi heels #Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven #Narcissus

[entheognosis]

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven walked the streets of New York dressed in outfits made of an array of household objects (Credit: Library of Congress, Washington, DC)

#eccentric

[schalotte]

my breakfast arrangement and the sky and the birds! today was very quiet and sweet, we discussed "passing" by nella larsen in my modernism seminar and i had lots to say and enjoyed saying it, then i went to the library and read a little in "amrita" by banana yoshimoto, tried to do some research on baroness elsa von freytag-loringhoven (frustrating!) and ended up finding an archive of the "little review" magazine, very interesting! on my way home through the park i noticed just how beautiful dusk was gearing up to be, walked to my favorite bench by the pond and read a little more, walked over the further bridge, took the tram for a few stations, did my grocery shopping, now i'm home. kisses to all!

#elli.txt

[baeddel]

this poem by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (who was indeed a baroness, unlike Lautreamont who i was shocked to find out was not really a count!) makes me think of Bloodborne... Lake, palegreen / paleblood. even her grammar naturally reads like Souls messages. "finger!, but hole!" (which could as easily be a line from one of her poems, anyway). she devises a lot of compound words in her poems—"sunstar", "sunsirens", "crimsoncruising", "saucerorbs", "rubyblood"—which, now it occurs to me to see, is also something we find in Souls games. "paleblood", "palestone", "darknight", "cloudstone", "moonlightstone" and "moonshadestone" (very near "moonstone"). why write this way? one is reminded of the complex compound forms we find in Germanic poetry, where instead of writing "blood" they write "wound-sea" and so forth. valkyrie (i prefer the Old English wælcyrge—don't you?) is already one of these, by the way—slain-chooser. the psychopomp. but the effect here is not, as it is with the kennings, a riddle which, when solved, returns a familiar image—the 'sea-steeds with foam necks' are, once comprehended, mere ships—they are rather familiar points of reference which combine into something strange. ah, yes, paleblood...

[marcelduchampsucks]

I am personally offended by ur username

I will take this as an inspiration to drop my username backstory.

One of my special interests is an artist called the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927). Born in a small village in Germany (now part of Poland), she worked as a vaudeville performer in theatres throughout Europe before helping her second husband fake his death and move to a farm in Kentucky in the USA. Eventually Elsa made her way to Greenwich Village, New York, and entered the bohemian art scene there. She made found-object sculptures, often from old plumbing or unused machinery and tools. Elsa generally didn't monetize her art, and was rejected from most galleries she applied to, likely because of her open bisexuality, crossdressing, and lack of resources and money. In Greenwich Village, she met Marcel DuChamp. It was only after meeting her and being introduced to her found object sculptures that he began to make his own. It is also theorized that Baroness Elsa created the original version of Fountain, DuChamp's most famous work: in a letter recovered after DuChamp's death, he wrote that the signed urinal that is Fountain was sent to him by a female artist friend under a male pseudonym (evidence points to this being Elsa). DuChamp and Elsa's friendship ended shortly after DuChamp's release of fountain, and Elsa hated him until she died. The whole story reeks of cishet male privilege, of DuChamp stealing Elsa's ideas and achieving extreme fame and profit off of them while Elsa herself remained in poverty, largely unknown in the art world.

That's why my username is marcelduchampsucks.

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

elemental traces no.19 ∈ 42 / indigenous entropy

André Roosevelt: Balinese girl photo, 1928

Bartolomeo Veneto: Portrait of a Lady in a Green Dress [sleeves]

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: La paix ramenant l'abondance [cape]

Unknown black woman torso

Acropolis Front part of a Horse, 490 BC

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: God (farting), 1917

JANINGE Chair IKEA yellow

Narcissus vintage illustration

Cindy Ray tattooed leg

Giuseppe Zanotti, hi heel pumps

Ergy Landau: Two Mongolian children, 1954 [wheel]

John Baldessari: “There Isn’t Time” phrase

[Nov 19, 2023 collage reworked]

#eucanthos #collage #black #venus #bicycle #legs #42 #André Roosevelt #Bartolomeo Veneto #horse #marble #time #narcissus

[mariacallous]

It’s impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century. But this was not always so. The Passion Projects examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history. Many of these works were vibrant efforts of modernist countermemory and counterhistory that became casualties in a midcentury battle for literary legitimacy, but that now add a new dimension to our appreciation of such figures as Radclyffe Hall, Gertrude Stein, Hope Mirrlees, and Sylvia Beach, among many others.

Melanie Micir explores an extensive body of material, including Sylvia Townsend Warner’s carefullly annotated letters to her partner Valentine Ackland, Djuna Barnes’s fragmented drafts about the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Margaret Anderson’s collection of modernist artifacts, and Virginia Woolf’s joke biography of her friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the novel Orlando. Whether published in encoded desire or squirreled away in intimate archives, these “passion projects” recorded life then in order to summon an audience now, and stand as important predecessors of queer and feminist recovery projects that have shaped the contemporary understanding of the field.

Arguing for the importance of biography, The Passion Projects shows how women turned to this genre in the early twentieth century to preserve their lives and communities for future generations to discover.

[mjaomjaomjao]

Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven

#Black and White #grayscale #bw

[polvoora]

WHEN I WAS YOUNG—FOOLISH— I LOVED MARCEL DUSHIT HE BEHAVED MULISH— ...

A group exhibition dedicated to Dada artist, the “Baroness” Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), at Mimosa House in 2022, had this snippet of poetry printed on a wall next to the bathroom door, beside a projection of Alfred Stieglitz’s photograph of an upturned urinal signed “R. MUTT 1917” claimed by Marcel Duchamp. The proximity of Elsa’s handwritten lines to the widely known signature underscores their remarkable similarity: a nod to the spirited debate that has emerged in recent years about the true authorship of the most famous art object of the twentieth century.

[garadinervi]

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Orchard Farming, 1927. From: In Transition. Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, (electronic edition), Edited by Tanya Clement, Special Collections at the University of Maryland (UM) / Office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) / Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) [Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven papers, Series 3, Box 3, Folder 14, Reel 5, Frame 180, University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD]

#manuscript #art #poetry #visual poetry #visual writing #handwriting #notation #elsa von freytag loringhoven #tanya clement #elsa von freytag loringhoven papers #university of maryland libraries #digital collections and research maryland #maryland institute for technology in the humanities #1920s

[praegerdesign]

"God" by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Morton Schamberg

[bigbenparlament]

#marcel duchamp #Duchamp fountain

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