Persian Pictures
, by Bell, GertrudeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781843311690 | 1843311690
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/30/2005
This 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 Picturesis 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 ls"secret, mysterious life of the Eastrs", 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.