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　　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.

Hampls meditation takes us to the Cote dAzur and to North Africa,

from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene

Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning

always to Matisses portraits of languid women, she discovers they

were not decorative indulgences but something much more. Moving

with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque

is Hampls dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.

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　　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. 

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　　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 )*In this discursive and absorbing interdisciplinary

work, Hampl (A Romantic Education) explores the artistic life from

an impressively diverse number of perspectives. Her starting place

is Matisse's Woman Before an Aquarium, a painting that, to her,

represents the languid, inward-looking life of the mind that leads

to great art. From this image, Hampl sets off on an intellectual

journey that leads her from Matisse's odalisques to those of

Delacroix and Ingres, then outward to the larger notions of

orientalism and exoticism that pervade such works. The pleasure of

reading this book comes from following Hampl as she skips swiftly

from one subject to another while maintaining a perfect consistency

of tone and theme. In one particularly illuminating sequence, Hampl

discusses the career of Jerome Hill, a documentary filmmaker from

her hometown of St. Paul, Minn., who chronicled the minutiae of his

life in his final film; the hometown connection allows Hampl to

explore aspects of her own life as well. Whether discussing the

journals of Katherine Mansfield or the harems of the 18th century,

Hampl proves to be an authoritative and beguiling guide to the joys

of leisure and the intellect. (Publishers Weekly, starred review

)*Hampl's memoirs of discovery are exhilarating. Writing of both

earthly pilgrimages and the inner journeys they provoke, she brings

a poet's love of language, fluency in patterns and modulations, and

fascination with the life of the mind to unusual aesthetic,

spiritual, and cultural inquiries. Her most sensuous, sinuous, and

radiant book to date arcs from contemplation of a painting by

Matisse. Woman before an Aquarium has served as icon and lodestar

for Hampl ever since she was first "apprehended" by it in Chicago

in 1972. Matisse's arresting image of a self-possessed woman gazing

at goldfish in a fishbowl in a room with a blue Moroccan screen

inspires Hampl to compose scintillating and spiraling reflections

on containment, the nature of time, the significance of leisure,

Matisse's love of fabric, European fantasies about harems, and a

little-known filmmaker from Hampl's hometown, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Entwining the gold gleaned from her inspired research with bright

strands of autobiography and unforeseen turns of thought to create

finely filigreed prose, Hampl does with words what Matisse does

with line and color, that is, reaches to the essence of perception,

"not simply what was seen, but how seeing was experienced."

(Booklist -Donna Seaman, starred review )

书籍介绍

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. Hampls meditation takes us to the Cote dAzur and to North Africa, from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as Eugene Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returning always to Matisses portraits of languid women, she discovers they were not decorative indulgences but something much more. Moving with the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesque is Hampls dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.