Holy Skirts is a celebration of resilience and imagination, anexploration of the world in which the modern woman was born, and a testament to the lost bohemia. In a beautifully written novel, René Steinke paints an exquisite portrait of this woman and her time - an era of cataclysmic change that witnessed brutal war, technological innovation, the rise of urban living, and an irrevocable shift in the lives of women, who, like Elsa, struggled to create their own destinies. As she befriends Greenwich Village artists and writers, she defines herself as a poet, even as she breaks the bonds of female propriety. Holy Skirts ebook &mid A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art By Rene.

Beginning in 1904, with Elsa's burlesque performance onstage in Berlin's Wintergarten cabaret, the adventures continue across Europe, through turbulent marriages and love affairs, until the Baroness finally lands in New York City, just before America enters the war. Holy skirts by Rene Steinke, 2005, William Morrow edition, in English - 1st ed. Holy Skirts is a vivid imagining of the Baroness's story. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource.

At the center of the Dadaist circle, the Baroness transformed herself into a living, breathing work of art. Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art is written by Rene Steinke and published by HarperCollins e-books. Before today's outsized celebrities, there was the Baroness - poet and artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and troublemaker. She regally stalked the streets of Greenwich Village wearing a bustle with a flashing taillight, a brassiere made from tomato cans, or a birdcage necklace declaimed her poems to sailors in beer halls and enthusiastically modeled in the nude for artists such as Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, setting the city ablaze with her antics. In 1917 no one had ever seen a woman like the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

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