The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat av Michel Leiris

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<b>Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.</b><p>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!<br>—from <i>The Ribbon at Olympia''s Throat</i></p><p>In <i>The Ribbon at Olympia''s Throat</i>, 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.</p><p>Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris''s life, <i>The Ribbon at Olympia''s Throat</i> serves as a coda