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02744aam a2200433Mi 4500 001 EA602118569E11E99ED8185D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190404010014 008 180827s2019 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781948226165 020 $a 1948226162 035 $a (OCoLC)1049777041 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d JOZ $d IOU $d SILO 100 1 $a Gainza, MariÌa, $d 1975- $e author. 240 10 $a Nervio oÌptico. $l English 245 10 $a Optic nerve / $c Maria Gainza ; translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead. 264 1 $a New York : $b Catapult, $c 2019. 300 $a 193 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator's husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits GeÌricault's workshop; Gustave Courbet's devilish seascapes incite viewers "to have sex, or to eat an apple"; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau's honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator's life in Buenos Aires--her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies. Seductive and capricious, Optic Nerve marks the English-language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it." -- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from Spanish. 650 0 $a Art $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women art historians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Buenos Aires (Argentina) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographical fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 9 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014843.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062141.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707014930.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20200421011622.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200103011502.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190726010304.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20190615010532.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190614010459.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190404010048.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA602118569E11E99ED8185D97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search