Holy skirts
By: Rene Steinke.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, 1874-1927 -- Fiction.; Germans -- New York (State) -- Fiction.; Artists' models -- Fiction.; Women artists -- Fiction.; Bohemianism -- Fiction.; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Established as a fashion avatar and controversial Greenwich Village celebrity in the early 1900s, the Baroness Elsa, a German émigré and troublemaking artist, stalks the streets donning unusual garments and poses nude for Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp while witnessing World War I, technological innovations, and a shift in the lives of independent-minded women. By the author of The Fires. Reader's Guide available.