![]() ![]() Whatever you might think, you cannot help but copy every gesture, including the most destructive. “Identifying or mimicking - the difference isn’t clear,” Léger writes about her shuddering household, her mother desperate for reconciliation with her husband, that husband for a different life. ![]() Léger writes that inevitably and at least on a subterranean level, her family never stopped identifying with this grotesque scene. The foreground: That same woman’s already broken body on the forest floor, the man leaning over her and pulling out her innards with his bare hands. ![]() The background features a terrified woman running from a pack of howling dogs and an armed man on horseback. The Story of Nastagio degli Onest i, a 15th-century work by the Italian painter Sandro Botticelli, is violent and surreal. IN THE OPENING to The White Dress, Nathalie Léger’s third in her transcendent triptych of books about fallen-off-the-path female artists, she wonders if everything in her life goes back to the large tapestry hanging over the dinner table of her childhood home. ![]()
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