{"product_id":"9781843311690","title":"Persian Pictures","description":"\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058640765168,"sku":"9781843311690","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781843311690_p0.jpg?v=1763742340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781843311690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}