Baroness Elsa's em dashes printing Ruskin’s ekphrastic writing became a

Ruskin’s ekphrastic writing became a way for readers to approach the experience of looking at great art without actually seeing it in person

and GEM shopping centre in Sens (1970)

Die bezaubernde Geschichte vom freundlichen und tapferen Tintenfisch Emil

symbol and metaphor

buttonholed at weddings

Baroness Elsa's em dashes printing Ruskin’s ekphrastic writing became aThe purpose of the em dash is wide rangingas 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 (18741927). moreHer poems, performances, costumes and life style all made a point of challenging extremely bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto punk