num_pages: 33
description: In The Bill Lszl Krasznahorkais madly lucid voice pours forth in a single vertiginous eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchios voluptuous bare-breasted blondes a succession of models transformed on the canvas into portraits of apprehensive sexuality. Alongside these women the writer that Susan Sontag called the Hungarian master of apocalypse interrogates Vecchios gift: Why does he do it? How does he do it? And why are these models so afraid of him even though he unlike most of his contemporaries never touches them? The text engages with the art asking questions only the paintings can answer.
language: English
title: The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice
publisher: Sylph Editions