LEIRIS MICHEL

ΗΛΙΚΙΑ ΑΝΔΡΟΣ

(H/B) THE RIBBON AT OLYMPIAN'S THROAT
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 refl...
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