Black Cat Fever: Manifestations of Manet's "Olympia"

Examines the painting of Édouard Manet entitled, "Olympia" in relation to its numerous representations. Offers a performative writing on this painting, stating one's understanding of "Olympia" comes through performative means in that it is an intelligible primarily through one's reading of its visual rhetoric; the act of reading is an interaction that is performative. Focuses on the reception and reading as acts of translation, or manifestations similar to perception performed by the viewer. Informs that the re-reading offered seeks to recapture and re-invent the paintings queer future through an act of "re-member-ing" and revision that views the painting through the "perceptual intervention of performance art." Discusses the presence of the black figure in this painting.