Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime AUTH-2066816 the author embraces a philosophically

the author embraces a philosophically rigorous concept of human progress that is informed by the teachings of the sages and mystics of Islam

where civilization is kept alive by careful hibernation

Physical Info: 198 pages

but all are sexy in their own cute way

When her father forces sixteen-year-old Candace to apply for a summer job

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime AUTH-2066816 the author embraces a philosophicallyJust 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