The artist Ishtar Hamoudi designed the cover of the book in 1972.
The fourth of four drawings by Ishtar Hamoudi inside the translation Lilies and Death. Again, apologies for the cropping.
The third of four drawings by Ishtar Hamoudi inside the translation Lilies and Death. Apologies for the cropping appreciated. The book was bound quite tightly by the library it was found in.
Lilies and Death - Drawing 3 (of 4)
The second of four drawings by Ishtar Hamoudi inside the translation Lilies and Death
Lilies and Death - Drawing 2 (of 4)
The first of four drawings by Ishtar Hamoudi inside the translation Lilies and Death.
Lilies and Death - Drawing 1 (of 4)
Lilies and Death - Rear Cover
Lilies and Death - Title Page
The translator, Mohammed Bakir Alwan, wrote a note to Professor Muhsin Mahdi (d. 2007) in this copy on Jan. 18th, 1973.
Lilies and Death - 1972
Today begins a short series of images from the 1972 publication of Lilies and Death, poems by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī translated by Dr. Mohammad Bakir Alwan. Al-Adib press in Baghdad published the book, which sold for 250 fils.
An Animal
The final drawing from Āl-i Aḥmad's Weststruck.
The Nature of Man
The penultimate entry in this series from Āl-i Aḥmad's Weststruck. Drawing by Ardeshir Mohassess.
Yoked
From Āl-i Aḥmad's Weststruck.
They Sit on Peasants' Shoulders
From Āl-i Aḥmad's Weststruck.
Unhinged
"You Who Weave the Threads of Your Executioner's Lash / from Your Sister's Tresses"
The title of this post is from Aḥmad Shāmlū's 1951 collection The Manifesto, from the poem "Until the Red Blossom of a Shirt." The drawing is, again, from Gharbzadegi by Āl-i Aḥmad.
The Original Source of the Flood
Ardeshir Mohassess continues to impress with this multi-headed figure juggling fire.
Weststruck - Ardeshir 82
The Outline of a Disease
Led by his nose.
Jalāl Āl-i Aḥmad
The drawings in this edition of Gharbzadegi are by Ardeshir Mohasses and were completed in 1982. This one is not signed by the author, and it does not match the style of those to come.
Gharbzadegi by Jalal Al-i Ahmad
ArtsAndAdab is expanding its purview for the next several days to present some drawings from the 1997 Mazda Publishers edition of Gharbzadegi (Weststruckness) by Jalal Al-i Ahmad, translated from the Persian by John Green and Ahmad Alizadeh in 1982.
Shiraz's Moon - Drawing 8
Last entry in series from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī's Shiraz's Moon.