Blue arabesque : a search for the sublime
(Book)
Author
Published
Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0151015066
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm
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Published
Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
0151015066
UPC
9780151015061
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215).
Description
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl's girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern era. Her tantalizing meditation takes us to the Cote d'Azur and North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisse and his obsessive portraits of languid women, Hampl discovers they were not decorative indulgences but surprising acts of integrity.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hampl, P. (2006). Blue arabesque: a search for the sublime . Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hampl, Patricia, 1946-. 2006. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime. Orlando: Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hampl, Patricia, 1946-. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime Orlando: Harcourt, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hampl, Patricia. Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime Harcourt, 2006.
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