Myth & Magic: Symbols of Tradition Part 5 - Baluch & Afshar

by Thomas Cole

Part 5 in a series of six, this edition deals primarily with the Baluch, including an interview with Jerry Anderson (son of a Brtish soldier based in Quetta, Pakistan, from HALI #76), as well as one chapter reproduced from a presentation made at the International Conference on Oriental Rugs, Istanbul - Echoes Through Time. All the presentation including an article from HALI 121 - Outback Afshars - are illustrated with more photographs of both rugs and old images taken in Baluchistan dating to the early 20th century.

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2020

About the author

Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism, and westward expansion.