Author: Christina Vella
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807149659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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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.
Author: Irene Gammel
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262572156
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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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.
Author: Poe
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Author: lady Georgiana Charlotte Fullerton
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Honore De Balzac
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Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Author: Horace Annesley Vachell
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author: Haggard
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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