Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
de Hampl, Patricia
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. light shelfwear, inscribed by the previous owner and then signed by the au
- ISBN 10
- 0151015066
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015061
- Librería
-
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- West with the Night (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.0013110
- Título
- Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
- Autor
- Hampl, Patricia
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. light shelfwear, inscribed by the previous owner and then signed by the au
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0151015066
- ISBN 13
- 9780151015061
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- LCCN
- 2006004788
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