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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060778016

ISBN-139780060778019

eBay Product ID (ePID)47677995

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Book TitleHoly Skirts : a Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicRomance / Historical / 20th Century, Contemporary Women, General, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorRene Steinke

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Steinke shows palpable admiration and respect for her proto-feminist protagonist. This is an intelligent, spirited work that stimulates interest in the baroness's work and times." -- Publishers Weekly "The baroness's antics make the Andy Warhol crowd seem tame by comparison." -- Playboy "Steinke is a consummate prose stylist. She has a poet's ear for words...." -- BookForum "A fascinating read." -- W Magazine "Steinke's graceful prose adds intimate texture to a woman so cutting-edge that Duchamp called her 'the future.'" -- Entertainment Weekly "Steinke's book reminds us why Elsa's frenetic, avant-garde world is worth remembering." -- Time Out New York "Steinke has drawn a fully realized character whose Dadaist impulses, even though the filter of time and fiction, still startle." -- Chicago Tribune, Steinke shows palpable admiration and respect for her proto-feminist protagonist. This is an intelligent, spirited work that stimulates interest in the baroness's work and times., Steinke's graceful prose adds intimate texture to a woman so cutting-edge that Duchamp called her 'the future.', Steinke has drawn a fully realized character whose Dadaist impulses, even though the filter of time and fiction, still startle.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisFrom the talented author of "The Fires" comes a fascinating novel of art, passion, modernity, and war set in the early years of the 20th century that provides a portrait of the real-life Baroness Elsa of Greenwich Village., National Book Award Finalist 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., National Book Award Finalist 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.T37926H65