Blue Arabesque A Search for the Sublime

Name: Blue Arabesque A Search for the Sublime
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ISBN: 9780156033114

ISBN-10: 0156033119

ISBN-13: 9780156033114

Edition: 2006

Authors: Patricia Hampl

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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,…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



A excerpt from what we call Blue Arabesque




appeared in Granta Fall 2004 and was later was selected and reprinted for Best American


Spiritual Writing 2005 Houghton Mifflin


The American Scholar a version of the Katherine


Mansfield chapter under title of ""Relics of



Summer 2001. That version also appeared in Rereading edited