Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art...
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Hampl, Patricia

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

BD$30.49

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

BD$30.49
Author: Patricia Hampl
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl's girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her tantalizing meditation takes us to the Cote d'Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugène Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse and his obsessive portraits of languid women, Hampl discovers they were not decorative indulgences but surprising acts of integrity.

Moving with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque is a dazzling tour de force.


Author: Patricia Hampl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780156033114


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2007 pg. 36

About the Author
Hampl, Patricia: - PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of four memoirs--A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque--and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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