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The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

By Michel Leiris

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About the book

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 milie...Show more

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9781635900842

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Autonomedia

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

Format

Hardcover

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