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More from my current failure project and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. This section deals with her great readymade God, which was misattributed to a male artist for nearly a century. Indicative of the treatment of female artists by the historic avant-garde, the Baroness’ work suffers under a pattern of misattribution and neglect.

Part of the Failure Project. Was Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven actually R. Mutt?
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An excerpt from John Higgs’ Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, in which he discusses this possibility.

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Consider reading Irene Gammel’s essential biography, Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity.

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UPDATE: This full piece, “The Outcast (Tomb of Terror # 14),” now appears in Entropy‘s The New Comics series. Read the comic.