The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
$53.50
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2019
Summary
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 visible, making her a woman with ties to a particular mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635900842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635900840 |
| Author: | Michel Leiris, Christine Pichini, Marc Augé |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 628g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
“Less a coda to his masterwork than its continuation, The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat is perhaps the best introduction to Leiris, his interests, and the curve of his rhythms.” —Sasha Frere-Jacobs, The New Yorker
About The Author
Michel Leiris
Michel Leiris (1901-1990) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Part of the Surrealist group in Paris, Leiris became a key member of the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and head of research in ethnography at the CNRS.
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