Painting the Persian book of kings today

About this book

"The work assembled in this show and its catalogue addresses a particular question, and one of peculiar insistence and even urgency -- it is a question frequently asked at present, and one to which various answers are available, with a variety of lofty words and rather less often with tangible proof. Essentially, the question is this -- 'what is the relevance today of a poem written a thousand years ago?'" -- Foreword.