{"product_id":"the-ribbon-at-olympias-throat-9781635900842","title":"The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat","description":"\u003cb\u003eShort fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat 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 \u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eThe Ribbon at Olympia's Throat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Ribbon at Olympia's Throat\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1981, toward the end of Leiris's life, \u003ci\u003eThe Ribbon at Olympia's Throat\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of the Game\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635900842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Michel Leiris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916260241589,"sku":"9781635900842","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_65219bc8-5c33-4118-a12d-5eaf803df4df.jpg?v=1734449665","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ribbon-at-olympias-throat-9781635900842","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}