The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

by Michel Leiris

Book Overview

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.

That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ribbon that modernizes Olympia and, even more than a beauty mark or a patch of freckles would, renders her more precise and more immediately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635900840
• ISBN13: 9781635900842
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"