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Article: Daughters of New York Dada at Francis Naumann.(exhibition of women painters' art)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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New York Dada, with its fluid genders and genres, has been poorly served by the rigid taxonomies of art history. It was not only Duchamp, Picabia, Man Ray and Morton Schamberg who crossed paths on these shores during the First World War, as textbooks would have it. Rrose was not the only woman in town. Indeed, Katherine Dreier defined the terms of American Dada as much as Duchamp. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven pioneered performance art in New York during the war years. Yet the Baroness's jarring ephemeral acts, her tomato-can bra and birdcage coiffure, have been marginalized, and Dreier is remembered as a supporter of Duchamp's ambitions rather than as a visionary ...