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Blue Arabesque: a Search for the Sublime

Blue Arabesque: a Search for the Sublime( )
Author: Hampl, Patricia
ISBN:978-1-299-88155-6
Publication Date:Jan 2007
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $13.00
Book Description:

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...
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