An edition of Kantha (2009)

Kantha

the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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An edition of Kantha (2009)

Kantha

the embroidered quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection and the Stella Kramrisch collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Language
English
Pages
290

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Table of Contents

Background texture : lives and landscapes of Bengal's embroidered quilts / Darielle Mason
From rags to riches : valuing Kanthas in Bengali households / Pika Ghosh
In search of "living traditions" : Gurusaday Dutt, Zainul Abedin, and the institutional life of Kanthas / Katherine Hacker
Embroidering Bengal : Kantha imagery and regional identity / Pika Ghosh
Woman's word/women's voices in the Kantha / Niaz Zaman
A many-splendored thing : Kantha technique and design / Anne Peranteau
Interwoven in the pattern of time : Stella Kramrisch and Kanthas / Darielle Mason
Kanthā (1939) / Stella Kramrisch
Resonances : a discussion on collecting with Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz / Darielle Mason.

Edition Notes

Published in connection with the exhibition held Dec. 12, 2009-July 25, 2010, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Philadelphia, PA, New Haven

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
746.460954/1407474811
Library of Congress
NK9276.8.B3 K36 2009, NK9276.8.B3K36 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 290 p. :
Number of pages
290

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24574331M
Internet Archive
kanthaembroidere0000unse
ISBN 10
0876332181, 087633219X, 0300154429
ISBN 13
9780876332184, 9780876332191, 9780300154429
LCCN
2009033382
OCLC/WorldCat
326626421

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