BOEKS 05
Astrid Seme—Baroness Elsa’s em dashes
design and concept by Astrid Seme
10 × 14.5 cm
88 pages
edition of 400
language: English
published by Mark Pezinger Books & Kunstverein Langenhagen
No.1 of the Black Forest Library
price book (€13)+ shipping cost (€5)=€18
buy here
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927). Her poems; performances; costumes and life-style all made a point of challenging extremely challenged bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic. The reader will find Elsa’s works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Sterne, Heinrich von Kleist or the queen of dashing herself Emily Dickinson.
BOEKS 05
Astrid Seme—Baroness Elsa’s em dashes
design and concept by Astrid Seme
10 × 14.5 cm
88 pages
edition of 400
language: English
published by Mark Pezinger Books & Kunstverein Langenhagen
No.1 of the Black Forest Library
price book (€13)+ shipping cost (€5)=€18
buy here
The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927). Her poems; performances; costumes and life-style all made a point of challenging extremely challenged bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic. The reader will find Elsa’s works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as Gertrude Stein, Lawrence Sterne, Heinrich von Kleist or the queen of dashing herself Emily Dickinson.
