Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse
painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at
goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue
Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman,
immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era.
Hampl's meditation takes us to the Cote d'Azur and to North Africa,
from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene
Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning
always to Matisse's portraits of languid women, she discovers they
were not decorative indulgences but something much more. Moving
with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque
is Hampl's dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.
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