Blue Arabesque

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2007

ISBN-13: 9780547350837

<DIV><B>These meditations inspired by a Matisse painting are &ldquo;a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times Book Review</I></B><BR /><BR /> Named a&#160;<I>Chicago Tribune</I>&#160;Best Book of the Year and a&#160;<I>Los Angeles Times</I>&#160;Favorite Nonfiction of the Year<BR /><BR /> 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&rsquo;s meditation takes us to the Cote d&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.</DIV>