• Dada: Reviving interest in England and Europe in the Dada movement prompts the question, why hasn’t someone written a study of the life and work of Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven? Born in Germany in 1874, she arrived in New York before the First World War. She knew Marcel Duchamp, and about 1919 began writing for the Little Review. She returned to Germany in the early 1920s and later went to Paris, where she died in 1927. Much of her life is shrouded in mystery but what is known is anything but humdrum.
Latest Dada history, by one of the participants, which is receiving widespread attention, is Hans Richter’s Dada—Kunst und Antikunst (Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne: DM 14.80).
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