{"product_id":"persian-pictures-9781843311690","title":"Persian Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gertrude Bell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Middle East - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Here in the dust and the sunshine is an epitome of the living East, and standing unnoticed in a doorway, you will admit that you have not travelled in vain. But as the procession of people flies past you, you will realize what a gulf lies between you. The East looks to itself; it knows nothing of the greater world of which you are a citizen, asks nothing of you and your civilization.'\" \u003cbr\u003eThis brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, \" Persian Pictures\" is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving sinuously between Persia's heroic, complex, mythical past and its present decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its enclosed, quasi-medieval gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan. Bell's documentation of Muharram - the month of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed - and Ramadan, display a mind finely attuned to the differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity, East and West.\" Persian Pictures\" is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45131919098007,"sku":"9781843311690","price":1286.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781843311690.webp?v=1767281603","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/persian-pictures-9781843311690","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}