The Baroness’s found object (Greenwich Village) “Enduring Ornament,” a rust-encrusted, 3-inch-diameter metal loop, ‘evokes a cumbersome, oversized engagement ring with an ominouslooking, baublelike appendage.’

Elsa became a baroness by marrying Baron von Freytag-Loringhoven and ‘quickly began to use her aristocratic title as an avant-garde weapon to assault bourgeois taste. She singlehandedly presented futuristic fashion to the bohemians of Greenwich Village, scandalizing her neighbors by parading semi-nude along 14th Street, barely covered with feathers.‘

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