Blue Arabesque

A Search for the Sublime

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers
Cover of the book Blue Arabesque by Patricia Hampl, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Author: Patricia Hampl ISBN: 9780547350837
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication: October 1, 2007
Imprint: Mariner Books Language: English
Author: Patricia Hampl
ISBN: 9780547350837
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication: October 1, 2007
Imprint: Mariner Books
Language: English

These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review

Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year

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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These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are “a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.” —The New York Times Book Review

Named a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of the Year

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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