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Blue Arabesque

A Search for the Sublime

Blue Arabesque( )
Author: Hampl, Patricia
ISBN:978-0-15-101506-1
Publication Date:Oct 2007
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mariner Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $29.95
Book 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. InBlue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing rush of the modern...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Art / Criticism & Theory
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.7 x 18.415 x 2.159 cm
Book Weight:0.29 Kilograms



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