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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett

M.K. Sett

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett

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Print on paper, four flap hardcover

In spite of the protestations of Mera Ben Kavas Sett that he had only lately encountered the work of Aubrey Beardsley, his drawings were usually said to be inspired by the late master of fin-de-siecle aestheticism and art nouveau in Britain. This version of Sett’s illustrated interpretation of the Rubaiyat—a text that contributed in its own way towards creating a taste for the aesthetics of ‘decadence’ in late-Victorian Britain—was published in India during the Second World War, following an earlier edition that was published almost three decades previously. His drawings drew from his own Parsi heritage, depicting women in traditional gara sarees or as tragic-romantic protagonists of the poem, even though Khayyam’s original verses employed a male figure as the object of homoerotic attention. For more information on the book, please see our Collection Stories section.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, illustrated by M.K. Sett
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