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Holy skirtsRene Steinke

Holy skirts

Rene Steinke
2005372 pages
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No one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Baroness 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…

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Editions

7 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2008
    HarperCollins · 9780061669811
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Harper Perennial · 384 pages · 9780060778019
  • Other · English · 2008
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669835
  • Other · English · 2008
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669842
  • Other · English · 2008
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669859
  • Other · English · 2008
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061669866
Artists' modelsBohemianismFictionGermansLiteratureWomen artistsFiction, historical, generalNew york (n.y.), fiction