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Blue Arabesque: The Search for the Sublime
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Patricia Hampl. |
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Harvest |
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paperback
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| Product Dimensions |
8.5 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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| ISBN |
9780156033114 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
215/2007 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
90923 |
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The author of Virgin Time here offers a tantalizing meditation on the odalisque, beginning with her discovery of a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago depicting an aloof woman gazing at a goldfish bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. Matisse's languid women were no mere decorative indulgences, as Patricia Hampl argues here; they were free and untouchable—poster girls for 20th-century feminism. "Who can resist, who would want to resist, the subjects of Blue Arabesque? I love few writers as I love Patricia Hampl. Reading her, I feel in conversation with a deliciously matured and balanced, lively and comprehensive mind. If you have ever found yourself inside a sentence or a paragraph with no wish to leave, you will appreciate Hampl, whose work consists of such sentences, such paragraphs, end to end. Blue Arabesque is a marvel."—Phyllis Rose
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