Blue Arabesque (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Patricia Hampl
Dimensions:	203 x 135 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-15-603311-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-15-603311-9
Barcode:	9780156033114

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