Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime - Brossura

Hampl, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0156033119 ISBN 13: 9780156033114

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Riassunto

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 Eugène 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.
 
Moving with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque is a dazzling tour de force.

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PRAISE FOR PATRICIA HAMPL

"Patricia Hampl is passionate about the demands of memory . . . Hampl’s voice is learned yet intimate, a gift of herself to the reader."--Maureen Howard, author of The Silver Screen

"Patricia Hampl writes in the service of life in the very largest sense – writing that 'makes a path' from reality to the soul."--Marie Howe, author of What the Living Do



PRAISE FOR BLUE ARABESQUE

"Ultimately, Blue Arabesque isn't a memoir so much as it is a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds, recognizing them as holy . . . Read Blue Arabesque and you too might mistake--or exchange--art museums for churches." --The New York Times Book Review

"Blue Arabesque is a marvel--so free, so inventive, and so unpretentiously deep." --Phyllis Rose, author of Parallel Lives

L'autore:

PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of three memoirs--A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, and I Could Tell You Stories--and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards. She lives in St. Paul, where she is Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0156033119
• ISBN 13: 9780156033114
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 215