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The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat
Buch von Michel Leiris
Sprache: Englisch

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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 milieu and era: that is what lends itself to reflection, if not divagation!
—from The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

In The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat, Michel Leiris investigates what Lydia Davis has called the "expressive power of fetishism”: how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.

Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris's life, The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps, notes) that are as formally disarming as the fetishistic experiences they describe, and longer essays, more exhaustive critical meditations on writing, apprehension, and the nature of the modern. Rooted in remembrance, devoted to the kaleidoscopic intricacies of wordplay, Leiris draws from his own aesthetic experiences as writer and spectator to explore the fetish that "exposes and disarms the sinister passage of time,” conferring "an undeniable realness upon the whole by essentially causing it to crystallize in a reality it would never have possessed if that sturdy fragment hadn't acted as bait.”

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 milieu and era: that is what lends itself to reflection, if not divagation!
—from The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

In The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat, Michel Leiris investigates what Lydia Davis has called the "expressive power of fetishism”: how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.

Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris's life, The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps, notes) that are as formally disarming as the fetishistic experiences they describe, and longer essays, more exhaustive critical meditations on writing, apprehension, and the nature of the modern. Rooted in remembrance, devoted to the kaleidoscopic intricacies of wordplay, Leiris draws from his own aesthetic experiences as writer and spectator to explore the fetish that "exposes and disarms the sinister passage of time,” conferring "an undeniable realness upon the whole by essentially causing it to crystallize in a reality it would never have possessed if that sturdy fragment hadn't acted as bait.”

Über den Autor
Michel Leiris; foreword by Marc Augé; translated by Christine Pichini
Details
Empfohlen (von): 22
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781635900842
ISBN-10: 1635900840
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Leiris, Michel
Solist: Auge, Marc
Redaktion: Kraus, Chris
Übersetzung: Pichini, Christine
Hersteller: MIT Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 239 x 161 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michel Leiris
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,594 kg
Artikel-ID: 114682161
Über den Autor
Michel Leiris; foreword by Marc Augé; translated by Christine Pichini
Details
Empfohlen (von): 22
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781635900842
ISBN-10: 1635900840
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Leiris, Michel
Solist: Auge, Marc
Redaktion: Kraus, Chris
Übersetzung: Pichini, Christine
Hersteller: MIT Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 239 x 161 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Michel Leiris
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,594 kg
Artikel-ID: 114682161
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