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| "This pleasingly compact book is part autobiography,
part art history, part philosophy, part biography, part literary
critique and part travelogue." -- Columbus Dispatch --
12/27/06 |
| "...brilliantly conceived... ...Blue Arabesque is a
paean to art and the art of contemplation." -- Chicago Tribune
-- 12/24/06 |
| "She shifts time and genres easily, from childhood to
the present, from art history and theory to biography, travelogue
and personal journal... " -- America - The National Catholic
Weekly – 11/06/06 |
| "In her early poem "Woman Before an Aquarium" - yes,
it's about the painting - Hampl writes: "A mature woman always wants
to be a mermaid." Hampl achieves just such a metamorphosis here,
swimming gracefully through the tricky currents of art and history,
biography and memoir. Singing yet another beguiling verse of her
career's lovely song. " -- Cleveland Plain Dealer -- 11/05/06 |
| "...it is a paean to the act of seeing, celebrating
our capacity to be transformed by the truths art holds, recognizing
them as . . . holy..." -- New York Times Book Review --
10/29/06 |
| "...dreamy, with a lulling depth of color and
pattern..." -- Time Out New York -- 11/02/06 |
| "...sinuous meditation on artistic inspiration..."
-- Entertainment Weekly (EW Pick A-) 10/27/06 |
| "What's most inspired about Blue Arabesque is that
its form echoes, with apparent effortlessness, the "impersonal
floating world" of Matisse's painting, and in reading it, one sees
the intricate, omnidirectional workings of the writer's mind."
-- Los Angeles Times -- 10/22/06 |
| "...finely filigreed prose, Hampl does with words
what Matisse does with line and color..." -- Booklist Starred
Boxed Review -- 09/15/06 |
| "...discursive and absorbing interdisciplinary
work... Hampl proves to be an authoritative and beguiling guide to
the joys of leisure and the intellect." -- Publishers Weekly
Starred Review -- 09/11/06 |
| "It is Hampl’s insight and humor that make this gem
worth consideration." -- Library Journal -- 09/01/06" |
| "An artful, affecting memoir whose lessons arrive in
a delicious whisper." -- Kirkus Starred Review -- 08/15/06 |
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