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Blue Arabesque
A Search for the Sublime
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Artikel-Nr:
9780156033114
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.2007
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Patricia Hampl
Gewicht:
288 g
Format:
203x133x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.