{"product_id":"9781843311690","title":"Persian Pictures","description":"Author: Gertrude Bell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781843311690\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 May 2005\u003cbr\u003ePages: 136 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924972716190,"sku":"ING-9781843311690","price":18.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781843311690.jpg?v=1782956639","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781843311690","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}