{"id":328,"date":"2006-08-04T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T08:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2006-08-04T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T08:17:17","slug":"i-think-im-gonna-ploetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"I think I&#8217;m gonna Ploetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My inexhaustible search for the obscure and bizarre teaches new lessons every day, as I discover things I <i>shoulda<\/i> known about but didn&#8217;t. The title&#8217;s reference nods to the birthname of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klausmartens.com\/elsework.html\">Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven<\/a>, <i>ne&eacute;<\/i> Else Hildegard Ploetz, who came up in Charles Simic&#8217;s very diverting review of Dada (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/19191\">Making It New<\/a> in the current <i>NYRB<\/i>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the legendary Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Lori[n]ghoven, who walked around New York with a wastebasket on her head, postage stamps stuck to her face, and her dress ornamented with children&#8217;s toys, tea balls, and other trinkets she swiped from Woolworth&#8217;s or found in the streets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;so of course I went looking for more and found these:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Lane&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home1.gte.net\/zzyzlane\/write\/essay\/baroness.html\">A Short Biography of&#8230;<\/a>, <br \/>Valery Oisteanu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/magazine\/features\/oisteanu\/oisteanu5-20-02.asp\">The Dada Baroness<\/a> from artnet.com, <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/103-7509654-8485434?&#038;index=books&#038;keywords=Elsa%20von%20Freytag-Loringhoven%20&#038;_encoding=UTF8'>some amazon.com offerings<\/a>, <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umd.edu\/dcr\/collections\/EvFL-class\/index.html\">Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Digital Library<\/a>,<br \/>and of course a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elsa_von_Freytag-Loringhoven\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>all of which just goes to show that my Education continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inexhaustible search for the obscure and bizarre teaches new lessons every day, as I discover things I shoulda known about but didn&#8217;t. The title&#8217;s reference nods to the birthname of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, ne&eacute; Else Hildegard Ploetz, who came up in Charles Simic&#8217;s very diverting review of Dada (Making It New in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}